Women from different parts of the world have started to take to the streets to denounce a global offensive against their rights and to demand an end to discrimination and femicide. In others marches were banned and in Afghanistan, the world’s most repressive country for women according to the UN, very few dared to take to the streets to commemorate the day. (AFP)

To defend their rights and demand an end to discrimination and femicide, millions of women around the world came out this Wednesday to protest and demonstrate in major cities as part of the International Women’s Day.

There are many reasons for mobilization: the restriction imposed on Afghanistan since the return to power of the Taliban, the repression protests in Iran against the death of Mahsa Amini, the questioning of the right to abortion in the United States, the femicide in Colombia and Mexico, or the consequences of the war of Ukraine among women.

The first marches took place in Asia, with mobilizations in Pakistan, Indonesia and Japan. In Jakarta, a demonstration in front of Parliament demanded the approval of a Domestic Workers Protection Act

In conservative and patriarchal Pakistan, the authorities tried to stop the marches but that did not stop thousands of women from taking to the streets to protest against the gender-based violence and demand equality.

In the Philippines, the police blocked the advance of demonstrators demanding release of political prisoners; while in Afghanistan barely twenty women dare to take to the streets.

Data from the United Nations (UN) Women, at the current pace, it will take 300 years to achieve equality between men and women.

With information from AFP

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