A quick look to some of the manifestation on the Internationale women&8217;s rights fight day.
While hundreds of thousands of people have marched around the world, shouting and demanding women&8217;s just right to exist in safety, with dignity and freedom, in some countries they don&8217;t even have the right to speak. To work as they wish, to move around, to live free from fear and tears.
That&8217;s why we have to fight. Stay aware, point up !
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&8220;&8221;Turkish police have intervened in the Istanbul University students’ march held for International Women’s Day allegedly over a banner reading “LGBTIQ+,” and detained many of them. The police attacked the students coming out of the faculty gate and detained them with methods amounting to torture.&8221;&8221; https://www.youtube.com/embed/p16JgZQzjZA
&8220;&8221;According to We Will Stop Femicide, a prominent activist group in Turkey, 338 women have been murdered since March 2023, and 248 died under suspicious circumstances.&8221;&8221;
From Shadows to Spotlight: Afghan Women Amid Taliban Oppression | International Women’s Day Manifesto 2024
&8220;&8221;In 2023, the Taliban further intensified its oppressive policies toward women, girls, the LGBTIQ+ community, and religious minorities. [Including] a ban on girls attending secondary schools and universities.(…) Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women face severe threats, including torture, sexual violence, forced marriage,
and death.&8221;&8221; https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa11/7801/2024/en/
&8220;&8221;The Paris demonstration for women&8217;s rights and equality with men was overwhelmed by jostling between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel activists. Scuffles broke out between the two groups. According to journalists on the scene, it was activists from &8220;Nous vivrons&8221;, an sionist association set up after the Hamas attack on Israel, and demonstrators waving Palestinian flags who were fighting. Women from &8220;Nous vivrons&8221;, who had come to remember the women killed by Hamas, were removed from the demonstration by the police. &8220;&8221; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FryS31hLjtM&ab_channel=L&8217;Obs
&8220;&8221;Protesters dressed as handmaids from The Handmaid’s Tale hold placards reading “Woman Life Freedom” prior to a march from Parliament Square to Iran’s embassy to highlight repression of women in that country on March 8, 2024 in London, England.&8221;
Costa Rica / Nicaraguan Feminist {.wp-block-heading}
&8220;Migrant, exiled, and banished Nicaraguan women took to the streets of San Jose,
Costa Rica on March 8th, to commemorate International Women’s Day.&8221;
Photo: Katherine Estrada / Confidencial
&8220;For the sixth consecutive year, exiled Nicaraguan feminists united with
Costa Rican women in a march, held in San Jose on March 8. For the sixth consecutive year, Nicaraguan women were unable to demonstrate on March 8th, under the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship.&8221;
The fight continue for Kenyan women. In January (2024) thousands of people were in the street to denounce the 60 feminicide already perpetrated since the beginning of the year.
&8220;Pakistani authorities have refused to allow a rally in Lahore which aimed to mark the International Women&8217;s day. Organizers and participants have been accused of displaying &8220;controversial&8221; banners. On the other hand, authorities have allowed &8220;Haya&8221; march which calls for preservation of Islamic values.&8221; https://www.youtube.com/embed/LckbqSBsIL0
Those controversial banners, accused to promote occidental lifestyle, were claiming for equal rights, stopping homophobic politics, free of speech, etc.
&8220;On International Women’s Day a march in Philippines’s Manila turned violent. Marchers clashed with riot police. Over 1000 women participated in the march.&8221; Some of them took their bra off as a sign of protest against gender violence.
During the Women&8217;s Day demonstration in Lisbon, two women wearing Climaximo waistcoats smashed the windows of Banco Santander Totta with harmer and spike, for &8220;consciously financing climate collapse&8221;. Through the pressure of dozens of people around them, screaming slogans, they were released. http://localhost:8000/2024/03/08/8m-climaximo-estilhacam-os-vidros-do-santander/
