"Celebrations and protests in the US and around the world mark International Women’s Day"

From Istanbul and Warsaw to New York and Los Angeles, activists demand equality and the end of gender-based violence

Women took to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence. [...]

“There is bullying at work, pressure from husbands and fathers at home and pressure from patriarchal society. We demand that this pressure be reduced even further,” Yaz Gulgun, 52, said. [...]

From Athens to Madrid, Paris, Munich, Zurich and Belgrade, and in many more cities across the European continent, women marched to demand an end to treatment as second-class citizens in society, politics, family and work. [...]