page_title: Mirabal sisters
section_title: Sisters
hierarchical_section_title: Mirabal sisters / Sisters
caption_attribution_description: English: The house the Mirabal sisters lived in for the last 10 months of their lives. Now a museum. Salcedo, Dominican Republic.
context_page_description: The Mirabal sisters were four Dominican sisters known commonly as Patria, Minerva, María Teresa, and Dedé, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were involved in clandestine activities against his regime. Three of the four sisters were assassinated on 25 November 1960. The last sister, Dedé, died of natural causes on 1 February 2014.
  The assassinations turned the Mirabal sisters into "symbols of both popular and feminist resistance". In 1999, in the sisters' honor, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
context_section_description: The Mirabal family were farmers from the central Cibao region of the Dominican Republic. The sisters grew up in a middle-class environment, raised by their parents, Enrique Mirabal Fernández and Mercedes Reyes Camilo.
caption: The house in which the Mirabal sisters lived in 1960 is now a museum in Salcedo, Dominican Republic.
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