Women in Mexico are staging a one-day general strike Monday to protest gender-based violence, but one participant isn't sure how long it will be before she feels safer on the streets. "Hopefully sometime in the future — maybe for our daughters or our nieces — we can start to change this." Male employees attend customers after their female colleagues stayed away from work during the A Day Without Women protest Monday in Mexico City. Women walk past an elementary school, closed in solidarity with a nationwide women's strike in protest at gender-based violence. Femicide is the tip of the iceberg, and so we're going for the whole enchilada," she said.

Source: CBC News March 09, 2020 18:11 UTC