Feminist demonstrators have taken part in a naked flash mob protesting gender-based violence in Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires. Displaying a banner that read "Femicide is Genocide," dozens of women demonstrated on Tuesday in front of three buildings that represent the country's democratic institutions: the parliament, the presidential palace, Casa Rosada, and Argentina's highest court. To a soundtrack provided by what appears to be a string quartet and a percussionist and with their backs to the public, the protesters slowly remove their clothes and gather around the banner, before collapsing to the ground to form a pile of bodies. The women then began rising and advancing towards their audience, ending the flash mob with a long, angry scream. C , meaning "artistic force of communicative shock" in Spanish, a team of activist artists formed last year. The women who participated in Tuesday's flash mobs were meant to represent the victims of violence against women and girls, just in
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As an all-female orchestra plays, the women slowly and silently remove their clothes, placing them in neat piles on the pavement, before climbing on top of one another to form an unsettling pile of naked female bodies. They then get to their feet and begin to scream — a primal, furious moment that lasts almost a minute. There were a record instances of femicide — the killing of a woman or a girl by a man on account of her gender — in , according to the NGO Mujeres de la Matria Latinoamericana. In April this year, Argentinian newspaper La Nacion reported that one woman had been murdered every day that month. They kill a woman every 25 hours. The state is responsible.
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The demonstrations in Buenos Aires, in Mar del Plata and Rosario, were prompted by an incident two weeks ago in Necochea, miles south of the capital. Three women in bikini bottoms were ordered by 20 police officers to put on their tops or head out. Many in Argentina, once one of the world's wealthiest countries, were stunned. Now used to struggling with economic woes and corruption, they are increasingly tired of what some see as the authorities' overreach. We are not consumer goods. As older men in suits and ties scrambled out of nearby offices during the protest, some stopped to stare. A few laughed or giggled.
By Gareth Davies For Mailonline. A group of feminists stripped naked and performed a screaming protest outside the Argentinian president's palace. The women were speaking out in protest of violence against women in Argentina and more than demonstrators gathered to march in front of the President's residence Casa Rosada in the capital Buenos Aires. The women performing the Femicide is Genocide protest stood in a group and undressed in front of onlookers before screaming angrily en masse. Women stand naked in front of a banner that reads, 'Femicidio es Genacidio', which translates to femicide is genocide. A woman screams angrily as part of the protest against women being made victims of violence. Stern-faced feminists stand defiant outside the President's residence Casa Rosada in the capital Buenos Aires. Women leave their clothes on the floor and form a pile of bodies to represent those killed. In all, women undressed completely in the Plaza de Mayo and in front of the Palace of Courts. The group used the attention-grabbing tactic to demand greater protection for the victims of gender-based violence, which is on the rise in Argentina.
