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Padrón, Claudia, Why aren’t women protesting in Cuba?, IWPR, 13/06/2018,

Claudia Padrón Cueto comments on the absence of the crime of femicide in the Cuban Criminal Code, and on the lack of statistics and appropriate media reporting on the subject. She also recalls the protests in Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil under the slogans #NoEstamosTodas (“We’re Not All Here”) #NiUnaMenos (“Not One Less”) and argues that the lack of demonstrations and feminist movements do negatively affect Cuban society.

See also https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article211666429.html and https://www.univision.com/univision-news/latin-america/in-cuba-where-femicide-is-not-a-crime-the-country-grapples-with-gender-based-violence.
Suarez, Lucia, Violence against women, it is my business, Havana Times, 20/09/2018,

Discusses the challenges faced by Cuban women while searching for protection from sexual violence and sexual harassment.
Torres-Santana, Ailynn, It was feminicide and that matters, CubaNews, 27/08/2018,

Sheds light on the role of social groups that have promoted the definition of the crime of gender-based homicide as “femicide” and reports on the legal framework that exists in Cuba on the matter.