“We remain firm in our right to protest and mobilization and in our demand for justice for the citizens and their families, victims of the Dina Boluarte regime,” states the joint statement from the organizations Flora Tristán, Manuela Ramos and Las Lilas.

The statement also bears the signatures of the National Human Rights Coordinator, the non-government organizations Demus and Las Lilas.

The text maintains that the president, “forgetting her obligations to protect life, assumed the patriarchal mandate of order and repression to silence protests and citizen demand for new elections.”

They also reproach Boluarte for her acceptance of the initiatives and projects of the Congress of the Republic against the national justice system, institutions, gender equality and the protection of our natural reserves and indigenous peoples and territories.

“This March 8, we declare ourselves in resistance and in defense of democracy, against the authoritarian alliance between the Executive and Congress.”

According to the statement, this alliance threatens the advancement of gender equality policies, the fight against sexist gender violence, decent work and the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights of women in their diversity and of Lgbtiq people.

Feminist organizations affirm that Peru is experiencing a political crisis aggravated by the deepening of corruption and the stagnation of the economy, as well as the weakening of public institutions.

Such crisis, they continue, generates “conditions for the increase in informal employment, citizen insecurity and illegal economies, all of which directly impacts the security and integrity of women in all their diversity and of Lgbtiq people, given social inequalities, machismo and gender gaps.”

They also question informal work without rights for women, the overload of domestic work, the increase in gender violence, including feminicide, and the loss of opportunities to participate in the country’s public life.

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