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In Pictures: International Women’s Day marked across the globe

Women have taken to the streets to call for equality and justice.

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Demonstrators rally during an International Women’s Day protest in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Women around the world have been marking International Women’s Day.

March 8 sees rallies and protests take place in major cities as women call for gender equality and reproductive rights, and an end to violence and abuse.

Here are some of the key images from around the globe:

A woman in a colourful dress on International Women’s Day in Spain
Demonstrators take to the streets of Madrid to call for equality and justice (Bernat Armangue/AP)
A new abortion centre in Warsaw
Abortion rights activists at a centre where women can have abortions with pills, either alone or with other women, in Warsaw (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
Serbia International Women’s Day
Marchers on the streets in Belgrade (Darko Vojinovic/AP)
Pakistan International Women’s Day
Supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in Lahore, Pakistan, hold placards in support of the women of Gaza (KM Chaudary/AP)
Serbian demonstrator
Many marchers called for an end to violence against women (Darko Vojinovic/AP)
Turkey International Women’s Day
Scores of women took to the streets in Istanbul, with many pushing back against the government’s pro-family stance (Emrah Gurel/AP)
Women sing and dance in Nigeria
A day of celebration at the Mobolaji Johnson Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria (Sunday Alamba/AP)
Close-up of a smiling lady in Madrid
Women of all ages took part in events in the Spanish capital (Bernat Armangue/AP)
A banner is held up at a rally
As violence against women and abuse continues to make headlines across the world, the message from marchers was stark (Darko Vojinovic/AP)