Thousands protest against ‘rape culture’ in Uruguay

First Amendment: 01/30/2022 – 01:36

Montevideo (AFP) – Thousands of women marched this Friday through central Montevideo against “rape culture”, days after a 30-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a group of men.

Under the slogans “Not no”, “Not a wife, it’s rape” and “Let her burn”, among others, feminist groups called demonstrations across the country, with a mass rally in the Uruguayan capital, denying several known cases of sexual assault in The last days and in particular of an event that occurred at the end of last week.

In the early hours of Sunday, a woman reported that she had been raped by a group of men in an apartment in a coastal neighborhood of Montevideo, arriving after meeting one of them at a nightclub and agreeing to consensual sexual relations.

However, at least three other men entered the room and assaulted her with the complicity of the person who brought her there.

“Rape culture is the continued assertion that men have sexual ‘needs’ or ‘motives’ that they cannot control,” notes the intense advertising of feminist groups that have called for the protests.

“Every day we are faced with sermons that indicate fear, silence and doubt,” the text adds, calling for more sex education and concrete action by the state to protect women.