[1][2][3] The movement was formed in July 2016, and the march it staged in August 2016 has been characterized as the largest demonstration in Peruvian history[1] According to Peru's National Statistics Institute 2014 survey, 32.3% of Peruvian women had at some point experienced physical violence from a spouse or partner,[4] and 11.9% had experienced such in the previous 12 months.

[5] The country's national human rights ombudsman's office has estimated that every month 10 women are killed by their partners.

[8] The protest was called as a show of indignation following the freeing from jail of convicted batterer Adriano Pozo Arias.

[9] In July 2015 Pozo had been captured on video attacking his girlfriend, lawyer Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista, in a hotel in the city of Ayacucho, and dragging her by the hair.

[15] It was attended by an estimated 200,000[16] to 500,000[17][18] people (though at least one news outlet puts the figure at 1 million[19]), comprising a column 30 blocks long,[20][21] led by Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista, Lady Guillén, and other women who had survived violence.