How #NiUnaMenos grew from the streets of Argentina into a regional women's movement
Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, started out in Argentina as a slogan chanted by thousands protesting the murders of young women. It eventually spawned a women's rights movement across Latin America.
Six years ago, the brutal murder of 14-year-old Argentinian Chiara Páez sparked a movement.
Páez, who was pregnant at the time, allegedly wanted to keep the baby. But her then-16-year-old boyfriend didn't. And so, he beat her to death.
Her death, along with other similar high-profile murders of young women in Argentina at the time, was a breaking point for women there.
Latin America is home to 14 of the 25 countries with the highest rates of femicide in the world, according to the United Nations. In Argentina, according to the Women's Office of the Supreme Court of Justice, one woman is killed every 32 hours.
In the weeks following Páez's murder, tens of thousands of
