Dominican protesters call attention to femicide, urge New Yorkers to take action

Author: Gwynne Hogan

In: WNYC, 2018

Briefly reports on ex-pats from the Dominican Republic who marched on the streets of Washington Heights, denouncing an epidemic of gender-based killings in their home country, where an average of 200 femicides per year occur. The protest in New York was called “March Against the Plague of Femicide”.

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https://www.wnyc.org/story/dominican-protesters-decry-femicide-dominican-republic-womens-day/

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