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Argentinians protest violence against women

People protest against gender-based violence in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 3, 2016. ©AFP

Thousands of people in Argentina have held a protest rally to denounce violence against women after three young girls were killed in the South American country.

The demonstrators flocked into the streets of the capital, Buenos Aires, on Friday to call for an end to gender-based violence.

Those attending the event, which was organized on social media by women's groups, wore T-shirts emblazoned with photos of victims of domestic violence.

"We're here because we want justice. Not just for us but everyone who has suffered," said protester Angelica Itati Nunez, who held a T-shirt displaying photos of her 15-year-old daughter, 6-year-old granddaughter, and her mother-in-law, who were killed by the same man back in 2012.

Another demonstrator, Hayde Gutierrez, also said, “There can't be so many deaths of so many women. They're killing us. It's terrible.”

According to the latest figures released by Casa del Encuentro, a women's rights group, there were 275 gender-based killings of Argentinian women in the past year, with attacks by men in 40 of those cases.

A woman cries as she touches the picture of her slain daughter during a protest denouncing violence against women in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 3, 2016. ©AFP

The march came after the recent killings of three 12-year-old girls in Argentina, with one of them being tricked by a man into meeting him by pretending to be a girl of her same age using a fake profile on Facebook.

Similar rallies were also held on Friday in the Latin American states of Uruguay and Brazil.

The protesters were outraged by the gang-rape case of a 16-year-old girl Brazil, the video of which was posted online, showing the bloodied victim apparently unconscious on a bed, with one of the rapists saying she had been abused by more than 30 men and boys.


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