In photos: International Women’s Day rallies world wide | EUROtoday

Officially recognised by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day is commemorated in several methods and to various levels in locations world wide. Protests are normally political, rooted in ladies’s efforts to enhance their rights as staff.

2026 marks the one hundred and fifteenth 12 months of International Women’s Day. This years’ theme is “Give to Gain”, with a concentrate on fundraising for organisations centered on ladies’s points and fewer tangible types of giving reminiscent of instructing friends, celebrating ladies and “challenging discrimination”.

Women’s rights activists on Sunday rallied in Karachi, Pakistan and shouted slogans throughout a protest in Istanbul, Turkey. In China and Russia, distributors offered flowers wrapped in pink and native staff in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, lifted fists and umbrellas as they celebrated.

International Women’s Day is a worldwide celebration – and a name to motion – marked by demonstrations, largely of girls, world wide, starting from combative protests to charity runs. Some have fun the financial, social and political achievements of girls, whereas others urge governments to ensure equal pay, entry to well being care, justice for victims of gender-based violence and training for ladies.

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It is an official vacation in additional than 20 international locations, together with Burkina Faso, Ukraine, Russia and Cuba, the one one within the Americas. In the United States, March is widely known as Women’s History Month.

As in different features of life, social media performs an necessary function throughout International Women’s Day, significantly by amplifying consideration to demonstrations held in international locations with repressive governments towards ladies and dissent basically.

Roughly 20,000 individuals attended a march for International Women’s Day in Berlin. German information company dpa reported Sunday that the gang was double the quantity police had anticipated. Speakers on the occasion decried violence towards ladies in Germany, in addition to gender discrimination.

In Brazil, Sunday’s marches for International Women’s Day served as a rallying cry towards gender-based violence, fuelled by the newest case to outrage the nation involving the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old lady in Copacabana.

The case in Rio de Janeiro’s famed, beachside neighbourhood occurred in January, however gained nationwide traction this week when 4 suspects handed themselves over to authorities.

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At least 15 protests had been deliberate throughout the nation, with organisers calling for the protection of girls’s lives and an finish to femicide.

Globally, a lady or lady is killed each 10 minutes by a member of the family or accomplice, in keeping with UN figures, and the variety of ladies being uncovered to battle has considerably jumped over the previous decade.

Some say commemorating International Women’s Day is now extra necessary than ever, as ladies have misplaced beneficial properties made within the final century, amongst them the 2022 determination by the US Supreme Court to overturn a nationwide proper to abortion, which ended constitutional protections that had been in place almost 50 years.

The US determination on abortion has reverberated throughout Europe’s political panorama, forcing the difficulty again into public debate in some international locations at a time when far-right nationalist events are gaining affect.

(FRANCE 24 with AP)