March 9, 2023
ISLAMABAD – Rallies marking International Women’s Day took place around the world on Wednesday after a year in which girls in Afghanistan were banned from education, mass women’s rights protests erupted in Iran and a landmark US abortion ruling was overturned.
Demonstrations were held in Paris, Berlin, Beirut, Jakarta, Singapore and more cities around the world.
Women participate in the Aurat Azadi March to mark International Women’s Day at Thandi Sarak, Hyderabad, March 8. — Umair Ali
People take part in a Women’s Day protest with the theme “Women united against injustice” in Valletta, Malta, March 8. — Reuters
Demonstrators lie in the street to symbolise the people who drowned in a migrant shipwreck near Crotone, during an International Women’s Day rally, as women strike to demand the end to domestic and racist violence, wars and the country’s prevailing “macho” culture, in Rome, Italy, March 8. — Reuters