{"id":133379,"date":"2019-11-21T13:08:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=133379"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:30:09","slug":"femicide-protest-on-sunday-24-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/11\/21\/femicide-protest-on-sunday-24-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Femicide protest on Sunday, 24 November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Marcha-contra-violencia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133414\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Marcha-contra-violencia.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Marcha-contra-violencia-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting at 9am from the Mirador del Sur Park at the intersection with Jim\u00e9nez de Moya Avenue (the extension of Av. Winston Churchill), a protest walk down to the Centro de los H\u00e9roes is scheduled. The walk is to protest the grim reality of rising deaths of Dominican women victims of gender violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protest walk is taking place to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women that is celebrated by the United Nations on 25 November 2019. The United Nations declared day honors the three Dominican Mirabal sisters that were murdered during the Trujillo regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The march is named \u201cMarch of the Butterflies Against Violence\u201d (Marcha de las Mariposas Contra la Violencia) and the theme is &#8220;Not One More&#8221; (Ni una mas). Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) stats indicate that from January 2010 to September 2019, 1,795 women have been murdered in the Dominican Republic. The DR is the Latin American country with the highest femicide rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/2019\/actualidad\/8752290-adesa-llama-a-participar-en-la-gran-marcha-de-las-mariposas-contra-la-violencia-de-genero\/\">Acento<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 November 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting at 9am from the Mirador del Sur Park at the intersection with Jim\u00e9nez de Moya Avenue (the extension of Av. Winston Churchill), a protest walk down to the Centro de los H\u00e9roes is scheduled. The walk is to protest the grim reality of rising deaths of Dominican women victims of gender violence. The protest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/11\/21\/femicide-protest-on-sunday-24-november-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133415,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133379\/revisions\/133415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}