Women and feminist collectives took to the streets of the Techotiva neighborhood of the Kennedy district in Bogotá to demand that the Prosecutor’s Office declare a national emergency due to the drastic increase in femicides across Colombia.
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Around 10,000 protesters in the Greek-controlled part of Nicosia took to the streets against corruption and nationalism preventing negotiations for unification of Cyprus, an island long divided between the ethnic Greek and Turkish ethnicities. Demonstrators demanded the resignation of the current nationalist president and the development of a plan to bring the north and south of the island together as one.
A crowd nearing 100 people gathered for a protest for Patrick Kimmons, a victim of police violence killed in 2018, for whom demonstrations have been organized by his mother. The march went through the inJustice Center and the downtown of the city, with a police response failing to manifest itself.
Dozens of protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets in opposition to the right-wing presidency of Sebastián Piñera and the release of all political prisoners of the uprising in Chile. Demonstrators burned barricades and blocked roads, ready to confront any police officers who arrived to disperse the demonstrators.
