March 8 is an international women's day. This is not just a holiday, when men give women flowers, but also the date, symbolizing the struggle for the equality of the floors. It is rooted at the beginning of the 20th century, when women in the US took the demonstrations for their rights. And in 1910, the political activist Clara Zetkin proposed to establish an international day of struggle for female equality and emancipation.
On March 8, rallies and shares were held on March 8 in support of the rights of women and victims of domestic violence. Assemble for you a selection of the most interesting events, which took place on this day.
In Albania, made installation from red female shoes
She was arranged on the steps of the main boulevard of the city. Shoes there are exactly as much as women were killed in the country because of home and sexual violence.
Photo: Gent Shukullaku
In Mexico City on the fence around the National Palace, wrote the names of the victims of the feminicide
Themicide is a gender-conditioned murder, when the victim is killed just for the fact that she is a woman.
Photo: Claudio Cruz
In the Kazakhstan city of Almaty marched for gender equality
Photo: Pavel Mikheev
In Switzerland, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Human Rights Organization has made a huge projection on the building
Her text means: "Each fifth woman in Switzerland has already been sexually violence."
Photo: Arnd Wiegmann
In the capital of Israel, women went to the coffins near the courthouse
They portrayed women who died from domestic violence.
Photo: Jack Guez
In San Salvador, passed march against the feminicide
Photo: Rodrigo Sura
The employees of the London Police conducted a special operation in which only women took part
She was aimed at combating robbery and violent crimes. Its goal is to inspire police officers to promote and attract more ethnic minorities in the ranks of law enforcement officers.
Photo: PA Wire
In the Spanish city of Santander, a female bike ride
Photo: Juan Manuel Serrano Arce
In Belarus, the girls staged a promotion in support of the arrested pensioners
Earlier in Minsk detained pensioners allegedly for participating in an unauthorized protest action. The police made such a conclusion as women read the literature on the Belarusian literature. As a result, women were condemned and prescribed fines.
Photo: Meduza.
Single pickets and promotions for the adoption of a law on domestic violence took place in St. Petersburg
Photo: David Frenkel