Millions of women in Mexico are expected to skip school, work and social activities on Monday in a 24-hour strike against gender-based violence and impunity for perpetrators.
"This is a call for women to disappear for one day," Estrella Nunez, a Mexican psychologist, told Al Jazeera before Monday's action, the first all-women labour strike in the country's history.
"In a country that has done little to resolve the femicides that afflict us, the disappearances, and the violence that affects us every day, we want society to resent our absence," Nunez said.