Activists demand sexual violence against Argentina’s indigenous people be classified a hate crime

The attacks are common in northern Argentina against women and children - including one victim who was just four years old

Ana* was on her way home from school with her young cousin when it happened. She managed to run away, but I didn't," she said, her voice trembling. They put me in a car. They were white men. And they raped me."

Ana's ordeal wasn't an isolated incident, but part of a horrific pattern of brutal sexual violence inflicted on indigenous children and women in northern Argentina by non-indigenous men, often in groups.