Red shoes marking Panama femicides lie near Christmas tree

Rows of red shoes and children’s booties highlighting femicides and the resulting orphaned children in Panama were an unusual accompaniment to the giant Christmas tree, awaiting decoration, in the Albrook  Transportation Terminal on Sunday, November 24.

Red shoes  are used by  the Women Meeting Space organization  to draw  attention to the  scourge of the female population

Each pair of footwear represents a dead woman by the mere fact of being a woman, and children’s shoes, booties, and shoes symbolize the children that are left, orphans.

Women Encounter Space activist, Chevy Solís, said  that for the second consecutive year they present a sample of “red shoes” – the initiative that in 2009 the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet made – to sensitize the population about violence against women, and on this occasion they also decided to call attention to the children left in the orphanage by these situations.

Public Ministry data shows reveal that between January and October of this year, there were  14,299 complaints of domestic violence and in in the same period, 14 femicides were registered.

In 2018  there were 19 victims of femicide.

The activity was carried out within the framework of the commemoration of the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women which created mass demonstrations across the world.