Hundreds of Panamanians march to the National Assembly to protest gender-based violence and a government's proposed pension reform, which demonstrators say constitutes "state violence" against women, especially those in the informal sector. "In Panama, the statistics are bloody," says one protester, "there is an increasing number of femicides, assaults, rapes against us women." The Caribbean, Central America and Africa are the regions most affected by violence against women, according to a new UN report. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES