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Mexico City: Women

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central AfricaLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

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Mexico has always felt like a country where men live on their own terms. A place where women strive for equality - and safety. More than nine are murdered in the country every day, according to UN Women. Tim Samuels and Anna Holligan travel to Mexico City and hear from a sports commentator, a domestic worker, journalists, newspaper editors and aspiring actresses. Mexican women are marching, calling on authorities to do more to combat the high rates of femicide - the murder of a woman because of her gender. Accusations of discrimination and harassment, most of them anonymous and in creative industries, have spread online. But what impact will the #MeToo movement have?

Producers: Barney Rowntree and Ant Adeane
Editor: Gloria Abramoff

(Photo: Feminist students protest against femicide and violence against women in Mexico, Ibero University, Mexico City. Credit: Getty Images) Show less

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