An activist of the women’s movement FEMEN chained up with other members on the Place de la République. Etienne Laurent/EPA
Turkish Kurdish women play music during an International Women’s Day event. Reuters
International women's day March in Palestine. @lana_palestine
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Turkish women shout slogans during a protest on International Women’s Day in Ankara on March 8, 2015. Banner reads: “Men kill women, not streets!” Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images
in French “One out of three women is beaten or raped”; in Spanish “We want a world where equality is a reality and not an objective” , Paris. Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images
Gemma Arterton, Paloma Faith and Laura Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst’s great-great-granddaughter, march in central London, 8 March 2015. Dominic Lipinski/PA
Moroccan women shout slogans during a protest calling for gender equality as they mark International women’s day in Rabat on March 8, 2015. Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
Turkish women beat riot police shields on March 8, 2015 as they try to cross a police cordon in Istanbul to mark International Women’s Day. Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
Turkish women march on March 8, 2015 on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul to mark International Women’s Day. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)