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International Women's Day Around the World

“Look at all these beautiful children who are female in the world. And in addition to all the other outrages which I have referred to, in terms of children throughout the slums and shantytowns of the Third World, in addition to all the horrors that will be heaped on them—the actual living in garbage and human waste in the hundreds of millions as their fate, laid out before them, yes, even before they are born—there is, on top of this, for those children who are born female, the horror of everything that this will bring simply because they are female in a world of male domination. And this is true not only in the Third World. In 'modern' countries like the U.S. as well, the statistics barely capture it: the millions who will be raped; the millions more who will be routinely demeaned, deceived, degraded, and all too often brutalized by those who are supposed to be their most intimate lovers; the way in which so many women will be shamed, hounded and harassed if they seek to exercise reproductive rights through abortion, or even birth control; the many who will be forced into prostitution and pornography; and all those who—if they do not have that particular fate, and even if they achieve some success in this 'new world' where supposedly there are no barriers for women—will be surrounded on every side, and insulted at every moment, by a society and a culture which degrades women, on the streets, in the schools and workplaces, in the home, on a daily basis and in countless ways.”

BAsics—from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, 1:10

Revcom Corps into the streets on International Women's Day >>

IWD Los Angeles, banner "Break the chains.... for revolution."

 

Los Angeles    Photo: revcom.us

Mexico City

Mexico City International Women's Day March

 

Mexico City, on International Women's Day, these youth are part of 180,000 others who marched for hours to protest violence against women.    Photo via tweet: @ieuan_counsell

Paris, France

IWD Paris, France women with banner against patriarchy

 

Paris, France    Photo: AP

Seoul, South Korea

IWD South Korea women protest genocide in Palestine

 

South Korea    Photo: AP

London, U.K.

IWD London women for palestine, sign says "Women Resist Occupation."

 

London    Photo: AP

Beirut, Lebanon

Lebanese woman shouts slogans during a protest to support the Palestinian women, March 8, 2024.

 

Lebanon    Photo: AP

Santiago, Chile

Chilean women hold swaddled dolls that represent the children killed in Gaza, protesting U.S.-backed Israeli genocide.

 

Chilean women protesting U.S.-backed Israeli genocide hold swaddled dolls that represent the children killed in Gaza.    Photo: AP

Madrid, Spain

IWD Spain: women at vigil to protest violence against women

 

Madrid, Spain    Photo: AP

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

IWD Brazil women protest femicide.

 

Brazil    Photo: AP

Buenos Aires, Argentina

IWD Argentina women in handmaids garb

 

Argentina    Photo: AP

Istanbul, Turkey

IWD Istanbul, Turkey, women shout slogans.

 

Istanbul, Turkey    Photo: AP

Rome, Italy

IWD Italy: women march with a banner against patriarchal violence

 

Italy    Photo: AP

Montevideo, Uruguay

Women participate in a rally to mark International Women's Day in Montevideo, Uruguay, March 8, 2024.

 

Montevideo, Uruguay    Photo: AP

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