In photos: International Women's Day protests in Latin America
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A woman with a hand painted in purple in the face chants during a demonstration commemorate International Women's Day on March 8 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: Tomás Cuesta/Getty Images
Thousands of women across Latin America and the Caribbean marked International Women's Day on Wednesday with protests, seeking to bring attention to issues such as gender-based violence and pay disparities.
The big picture: Latin America and the Caribbean have some of the worst rates of gender-based violence in the world, according to UN data.
Last year, at least 4,473 women in Latin America were killed because of their gender — an average of 12 per day.
Women in several of these countries in 2020 started a new annual tradition, known as "Un día sin nosotras," (a day without us) which is held every March 9. Women on this day abstain from working or doing unpaid labor.
