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| International Women's Day: events highlighting gender inequality take place around the world - live updates | International Women's Day: events highlighting gender inequality take place around the world - live updates |
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| On International Women’s Day, we’ll be following the commemorative events all around the world. | On International Women’s Day, we’ll be following the commemorative events all around the world. |
| Asia | |
| Whilst number of IWD events were cancelled across Asia due to the coronavirus, including South Korea, marches took place in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. | |
| Chinese state broadcaster CCTV took the opportunity to highlight the work of female medics tackling coronavirus. | |
| London, UK | |
| In London, the Women’s Strike has just begun. It encourages women to withdraw all work - whether paid, or unpaid domestic work - on IWD. | |
| “The Women’s Strike rejects the decades of economic inequality, criminalization and policing, racial and sexual violence, and endless global war and terrorism,” the group said in a statement. | |
| “The Women’s Strike is a strike for solidarity between women – women of colour, indigenous, working class, disabled, migrant, Muslim, lesbian, queer and trans women. On 8 March, in cities and towns across the UK we will meet each other on the streets and strike against a system of power that keep us isolated and divided from one another.” | |
| Manila, Philippines | |
| In the Philippines, feminist movements have linked up with anti-imperial movements, and dissidents against the Duterte regime. Hundreds took to the streets to call for an end to imperialism, and to Duterte’s rule. | |
| A large effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte, who has been accused of misogyny, was also burnt. | |
| “The violence and poverty among women are getting worse,” Joms Salvador of women’s group Gabriela told AFP. | |
| “While we have 37 laws related to women’s rights, on the ground what is happening is a widespread violence in the forms of domestic abuse, sexual harassment and rape,” he said. | |
| Berlin, Germany | |
| In the German capital, women have participated in a ‘purple ride’ - a bicycle demonstration. | |
| Edirne, Turkey | |
| Female asylum seekers who are waiting at Turkey’s Pazarkule border crossing to reach Europe have staged a demonstration demanding the gate be opened on IWD. | |
| Chile | Chile |
| Chile’s main protest square, Plaza Dignidad, is now full— and the march hasn’t even officially begun yet. | Chile’s main protest square, Plaza Dignidad, is now full— and the march hasn’t even officially begun yet. |
| There’s a huge 8M flag, and women are spray painting signs on the roads. | There’s a huge 8M flag, and women are spray painting signs on the roads. |
| A woman is on top of the horse in the square’s central statue of Baquedano. She’s covering her eye, a tribute to over 400 victims who have had their eyes shot by police weapons since the unrest broke out in October. | A woman is on top of the horse in the square’s central statue of Baquedano. She’s covering her eye, a tribute to over 400 victims who have had their eyes shot by police weapons since the unrest broke out in October. |
| Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan |
| Here is a video of the IWD protest in Kyrgyzstan, where predominantly female protesters were arrested after masked men attacked the demonstration. | Here is a video of the IWD protest in Kyrgyzstan, where predominantly female protesters were arrested after masked men attacked the demonstration. |
| Glasgow, Scotland | Glasgow, Scotland |
| The Clydeside branch of the International Workers of the World Union have organised a demonstration in Glasgow. | The Clydeside branch of the International Workers of the World Union have organised a demonstration in Glasgow. |
| They are joined by the West Dumbartonshire branch of WASPI, Women Against State Pension Inequality, some of whom are dressed as suffragettes. | They are joined by the West Dumbartonshire branch of WASPI, Women Against State Pension Inequality, some of whom are dressed as suffragettes. |
| Dhaka, Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| In the early hours of the morning of March 8, women in Dhaka, Bangladesh held a candlelight vigil to mark IWD. | In the early hours of the morning of March 8, women in Dhaka, Bangladesh held a candlelight vigil to mark IWD. |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| The Argentine Armed Forces all-women orchestra played as part of IWD celebrations on March 6. The Women’s Armed Forces Orchestra brings together officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force. | The Argentine Armed Forces all-women orchestra played as part of IWD celebrations on March 6. The Women’s Armed Forces Orchestra brings together officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force. |
| Sydney, Australia | Sydney, Australia |
| IWD demonstrations also took place in Sydney, Australia. | IWD demonstrations also took place in Sydney, Australia. |