Hundreds of women from various sectors of Santo Domingo, as well as from outlying provinces, manifested outside the National Congress building yesterday to demand a more modern penal code. Their demonstration coincided with yesterday’s observance of the International Day of Non-Violence Against Women. Many of the demonstrators were residents of the rougher capital city neighborhoods and they voiced slogans to support a penal system that would help combat interfamily violence. Simultaneously at Duarte Park in Santiago, hundreds more women and students marched to protest domestic violence and child abuse on occasion of the date on which, 44 years ago, the three Mirabal sisters and their chauffeur were tragically murdered at the hands of the Trujillo regime.