Photos from demonstrations around the world on International Women’s Day

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Protesters maintain indicators at an illustration calling for girls’s rights in Afghanistan in London’s Parliament Sq. on Worldwide Ladies’s Day on Friday.

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Protesters maintain indicators at an illustration calling for girls’s rights in Afghanistan in London’s Parliament Sq. on Worldwide Ladies’s Day on Friday.

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From purple flags in Kyrgyzstan to being pregnant costumes in Bangkok to a sit-in in Seoul, demonstrators worldwide crammed the streets Friday to mark this 12 months’s Worldwide Ladies’s Day.

Rallies on Worldwide Ladies’s Day historically take purpose at girls’s points like pay equality and home violence, and this 12 months’s iteration was no exception. In Thailand, protesters known as for longer maternity depart; in Germany, some known as for higher working situations; and in London, demonstrators urged larger entry to training in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

And a few used the rallies to demand an instantaneous cease-fire in Gaza, the place greater than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli navy marketing campaign responding to the Hamas-led assaults on Oct. 7, in keeping with the Gaza Well being Ministry. Others known as for the return of the remainder of the Israeli hostages kidnapped that day, a few of whom are girls. (A U.N. report launched earlier this week discovered “cheap grounds to imagine” that hostages in captivity in Gaza could also be experiencing sexual violence by the hands of their captors.)

Members of Thai labor unions and ladies’s networks wearing being pregnant costumes to march to Authorities Home on Worldwide Ladies’s Day to attract consideration to maternity rights in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Activists participate in a march on for Worldwide Ladies’s Day in Hyderabad, Pakistan.

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Activists participate in a march on for Worldwide Ladies’s Day in Hyderabad, Pakistan.

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Activists supporting Palestinian girls maintain placards studying “Free Palestinian girls!” throughout a rally to mark Worldwide Ladies’s Day in downtown Seoul.

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Activists supporting Palestinian girls maintain placards studying “Free Palestinian girls!” throughout a rally to mark Worldwide Ladies’s Day in downtown Seoul.

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Supporters of the teams Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board and Deliver Them Dwelling Now maintain portraits of lacking and kidnapped Israeli women and girls throughout an illustration exterior the South African parliament in Cape City to mark Worldwide Ladies’s Day.

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A girl activist tries to push again a riot police officer who blocked their march in direction of the Malacanang Palace throughout a protest to mark Worldwide Ladies’s Day in Manila.

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A girl activist tries to push again a riot police officer who blocked their march in direction of the Malacanang Palace throughout a protest to mark Worldwide Ladies’s Day in Manila.

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