Mexican women's patience snaps at Amlo's inaction on femicide

Feminists seize human rights office to force President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to tackle grim toll of rape and murder

As Mexicans prepared to mark Independence Day celebrations on 15 September, a different kind of commemoration was held at the headquarters of the country's human rights commission (CNDH).

Under a fluttering purple anarchy flag, women in black balaclavas lined the upstairs balconies of the 19th-century building - and speaker after speaker expressed their fury at the country's crisis of violence against women.