Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in cities the world over Sunday (Mar 8) to mark Worldwide Girls’s Day and, in some instances, denounce the struggle within the Center East.
From Rio in Brazil to cities throughout France, Spain and different European nations, demonstrators marched to demand girls’s rights throughout a spread of points.
In France, rape survivor Gisele Pelicot led a girls’s rights march in Paris, one in every of a number of demonstrations in French cities.
Hundreds additionally marched in cities throughout Spain to protest gender-based violence and name for an finish to the struggle within the Center East.
The Paris march was one in every of some 150 demonstrations held to mark Worldwide Girls’s Day in France, with occasions happening in different cities together with Bordeaux, Lille, and Marseille.
“We can’t quit,” Pelicot, 73, informed the gang as she joined 1000’s within the French capital marching for ladies’s rights, financial equality, and an finish to sexual violence.
Pelicot grew to become a world image within the combat in opposition to sexual violence after she waived her proper to anonymity through the 2024 trial of her ex-husband and dozens of strangers who raped her whereas she was unconscious.
Final week, she acquired the Order of Civil Benefit from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Madrid.
