The manifestations of Buenos Aires in Lagos require justice for the victims of femicide and ask for reforms to protect women.
Protesters have taken to the street of all Asia, Africa, Europe and America to mark International Women’s DayWith many who require the end of gender violence and inequality.
In cities like Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday, these warnings were especially serious, as protesters went against austerity plans presented by President Javier Milei who say they will re -publish services for women.
The government of Milei has closed the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity of the country and plans to go on a strike « femicide » – The term for the murder of women in the context of gender -based violence – of the country’s criminal code. Its Minister of Justice has called the term a « distortion of the concept of equality », saying that it indicates a higher value for women’s life.
Reporting Buenos Aires, Teresa Bo, from Al Jazeera, said that protesters say the movement is especially detrimental, as a woman is killed every 30 hours in the country. A United Nations report published last year found that about 60 percent of women and girls killed in 2023 were killed by their intimate partner or a close relative.
« Women here say they have been struggling too long, they will not go back, not to be silent, » said good. « They say that their struggle is too important and that is why they say they will continue their streets on the streets. »
Hundreds of women in Ecuador went to the Cito capital with signs that opposed violence and the « patriarchal system ».
« Justice for our daughters! » Protesters have called in support of women killed in recent years.
In Bolivia, thousands of women began to leave at the end of Friday, with some graffiti scratched on the walls of the courts, demanding that their rights be respected and denounce the impunity in the femicides, with less than half of the cases that reached the sentence.
In many European countries, women also protested against violence, for better access to specific gender health care, equal remuneration and other issues in which there are still disparities with men.
In Poland, activists opened a center next to the Parliament building in Warsaw where women can go to medical abortion, also known as non -surgical abortions, alone or with other women.
The opening of the Center for International Women in the face of the legislature was a symbolic challenge for the authorities of the traditionally Roman Catholic Nation, which has one of Europe the most restrictive Abortion laws.
The protesters also went out on Madrid, Spain.
Some protesters contained hand -drawn images that represented Gisele PelicotA French woman who was drugged by her ex-marit in France for a decade to be raped by dozens of men while unconscious.
Pelicot has become a symbol for women throughout Europe in the fight against sexual violence.
In the Nigerian capital of Lagos, thousands of women gathered at the Mobolaji Johnson Stadium, dancing and singing and celebrating their donation.
Many were dressed in purple: the traditional color of women’s liberation movement.
In Russia, women’s day celebrations had more official excessive, with the soldiers of Honor guards presented yellow tulips for girls and women during a celebration in Saint Petersburg.
In Ukraine, a ceremony was held in the city of Kharkiv to commemorate female soldiers who had died fighting the invasion of Russia.
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