'Lost voices', this is how the emptiness that 9 women leave a day sounds

"Mexicans, today the women of your country have something to say to you." Nine women sing the national anthem of Mexico in chorus, little by little, their voices fall silent. First one, then another. Silence takes over the room. "Nine women disappear daily in Mexico. Knowing their stories is keeping thousands more alive," says the video.

Mexico: Today your daughters, sisters and mothers have something to tell you. # NiUnaMás #VocesPerdidas pic.twitter.com/K3sIpasPN6

The journalist Frida Guerrera, author of the book Ni una más , launches with the organization Voces de la Ausencia a project that collects testimonies from relatives of victims of femicide in Mexico: Lost voices . The project tells the stories of family members, human rights defenders and the activist Frida herself who has been documenting the murders of women in Mexico since 2016.

"We hear a number of women murdered every day but behind the numbers, there are names of women and families who suffer," they say from the Voces Perdidas initiative. Mirna, Ana, Luis, Sandra, Carmen, Enrique, Frida, Sandra and Blanca are the nine people in charge of narrating the reason for this project. Relatives of victims mostly. They remember those who are no longer so that their name is not erased from history.

"If as living indigenous women they do not tell us, you die less", today she hears the voice of Ana Belén. More stories at: https://t.co/aztlHJR8HJ #VocesPerdidas https://t.co/ooAGqppjVC

Each of the women who sings has a T-shirt with the face of a murdered woman. "Every day at 12 o'clock at night the national anthem plays in the media. We would like other media to change the hymn that they always put up for it to raise awareness about the deminicides," from the organization say that the campaign resignifies the country's anthem.

In Mexico last year 1,006 women were victims of femicide, according to the Secretariat of Public Security. This number rises to more than 3,000, according to organizations in favor of women's rights. Of these, 1 in 10 was a minor. The Lost Voices initiative started when nine women in Mexico were killed. The situation has become more critical in recent years and the number rises to ten, according to the United Nations and Amnesty International.

"Girls and women were not in the wrong place. They were victims of a murderer and we must continue to give victims a voice to help prevent this," says Frida Guerrera. "This is not a war of men against women. We have to go back to being the society we were before," adds the defender of women's rights.

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