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  • Women take part in a drumming session in downtown Johannesburg, Friday, March 8, 2013 to protest against violence against women and children. As the world marks International Women's Day, South Africans are locked in public soul-searching over the high level of murders and rapes perpetrated against women.
  • Filipino protesters shout slogans as they prepare to march to the US Embassy in Manila to commemorate International Women's Day in the Philippines. Thousands of Filipinos commemorate Women's Day with calls to stop violence against women and children.
  • Women shout slogans protesting violence against women during a march to commemorate International Women's Day in Asuncion, Paraguay. The poster reads in Spanish
  • Nepalese climbers, from left, Maya Gurung, Nimdoma Sherpa, Chunu Shrestha, Pema Dikki, Asha Singh, Shailee Basnet and Pujan Acharya pose for photographs in Katmandu, Nepal. Aiming to change the all-male image of mountaineering in the country, a group of Nepalese women have embarked on a mission to climb the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents. The women, aged between 21 and 32, have already climbed Everest in Asia, Kosciuszko in Australia and Elbrus in Europe and are preparing next week to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa to mark International Women's Day.
  • Indian women laborers work to lay a cable for an electricity company on International Women's Day in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, March 8, 2013.
  • An Indian artist gives final touches to a painting on street walls on International Women's Day in Hyderabad, India, Friday, March 8, 2013.
  • A Lebanese man hangs a poster as part of an initiative set up by The Uprising of Women in the Arab World and supported by International Federation for Human Rights, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Posters representing Arab women hold a slogan saying
  • Indian women passengers travel in a local train specially for woman in Mumbai, India, Friday, March 8, 2013 on International Women's Day.
  • The Boxgirls Berlin are part of the Boxgirls International organization that supports women and girls using boxing programs as a catalyst for social change in their cities with the slogan 'Strong Girls, Save Communities' and supporting the women and girls empowerment. Friday March 8, 2013 marks the international women's day.
  • Tibetan poet Tsering Woeser, one of 10 women named for the International Women's Day honor on Friday, March 8, 2013 in Washington, speaks during an interview at the Associate Press office in Beijing. The United States would like to present the outspoken Tibetan author with an award for courage but the activist will be unable to travel to receive the honor because Chinese authorities have routinely denied her a passport.
  • A Cambodian family, wearing a portrait of detained Yoam Bopha, a Boeung Kak lake villager, takes part in a rally to mark the World Women's Day, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March. 8, 2013. Bopha was arrested by local authorities after her protest over compensation for loss of her house due to a new luxury housing development. The protesters demanded the release of Bopha.
  • Young Indian men and women reflect the attitude of the society of closing their eyes to sexual abuse against women as they stage a street play against sexual abuse of women and ways to raise voice against it on International Women's Day, in New Delhi, India.
  • First lady Laura Bush, right, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leave the stage after making remarks on International Women's Day at the State Department Tuesday, March 8, 2005.
 
 

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