[News] Activists from around the world draw butterflies in honor of victims of gender-based violence

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Santo Domingo, RD.

 

In the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and to give gender to the annual campaign # 16Díasdeactivismo by UN Women, activists from all over the world have come together to remember the victims of violence by drawing butterflies.

 

This initiative seeks to raise awareness about the importance of eliminating violence against women, writing the names of different victims of gender violence and drawing butterflies around them.

This movement is led by the Chalk Back Organization (in Spanish, “respond with chalk”), the tribute aims to raise awareness about the scale and impact of gender violence.

The concept of butterflies arises in honor of the Mirabal sisters: Minerva, Patria and María Teresa, in the same way, to remember those whose wings were torn off at the hands of gender violence.

“The idea is that people from all over the world come together and draw butterflies (either digitally, with chalk or on sheets of paper) as a metaphor to represent all those women whose wings were torn off at the hands of femicide, such as it was the case of the Mirabals ”, explains Rosalia Piña, co-founder of the CatCalls account in the Dominican Republic (@catcallsofdr).

 

About Chalk Back

 

 

The Chalk Back Organization encompasses Instagram accounts from around the world called “catcallsof…” and the name of the country or city.

Catcalls in Spanish "street stalkers", and through these digital channels led by more than 500 young people from six continents, 55 countries and 170 cities, testimonies of street sexual harassment are shared as a complaint and to lead to reflection under the statement "If it makes you uncomfortable to read it, imagine hearing it."