Taking it to the Streets

Marching with the women, we even picked up some highschoolers along the way!

This week the I joined more than 250 members of the Association and various Women´s Networks in marching against Femicide, the ¨unjust killing of women due to their gender.¨ Femicide is problem that has increased in the last ten years and has taken more than 1500 Honduran women this year.

Our rep being interviewed by the press while AMDV leads the march

To protest this increasingly alarming trend, and to honor National Women´s Day (on Thanksgiving... quite appropriate!), we took to the streets, and literally took them over! With banners, posters, and signs, we took over a 1 mile stretch of the major Pan American highway connecting Honduras and Nicaragua. Our march finished at a large hotel, where we held a conference with various representatives working in the area of domestic violence and justice. Among attendees were police officers, government officials, and the municipal judge overseeing domestic violence. Reporters and the press were there in full force to capture the day, as well as this amatuer photographer!

It was nearly 90 degrees out, but women came prepared and stuck it out

A strong message, sent with love