Thousands gather across the globe to mark International Women's Day

We're going in the right direction: Trump, the masculinists, they make lots of noise but they're not as strong as we are,

she told AFP

This is a battle, it's not over,

said 49-year-old Sabine, who was marching with her seven-year-old son

Women are half of our society and we need to talk about what they do, what they are like, how they protect and what they do to make our country free and independent,

activist Iryna Lysykova told AFP in Kharkiv

It is coming now and we're taking backwards steps,

said Dori Martinez Monroy, 63, in the Spanish capital

Since 2025 was declared 'The Year of The Family', we as women have been confined to our homes,

the psychologist lamented, adding

Narges Mohammadinobel Peace Prize winner

Women have risen up against the Islamic republic in such a way that the regime no longer has the power to suppress them,

Mohammadi said in a video message where she was, as usual, not wearing the headscarf obligatory for all Iranian women

Indonesian woman are fighting against the state for these reasons,

he said

I find it quite frightening how certain developments are reversing, how women's rights could simply be moving backward again, so to speak, because of the right. Especially in the USA,

she said

With our demand for an end to violence against women, for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention against femicide... and for social policies that don't place the burden of care on women, we are pursuing our March 8 struggle for democracy, equality, peace and fraternity,

Arzu Cerkezoglu, chairwoman of the DISK trade union, told AFP

Nearly 200 women were unjustly detained on March 8!"

they added

Kristen Ghodseeamerican ethnographer and professor

On Feb. 23 in Russia, which was March 8 in Western Europe, women went out on the streets and protested for bread and peace,

said Kristen Ghodsee, professor and chair of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania

People [emailed me] saying they’re going to bring buses of women of all ages to the protest,

Parys says

Just because different folks are building different things, does not mean that everyone is not running in the same direction,

Carmona says

I wasn’t expecting this to happen. I wasn’t expecting to be the one in charge of it…it just fell into my lap,

Rodriguez says, noting

What we're trying to do is help folks build community. Give folks a chance to organize something in their communities at a time that’s not a trigger moment, because things get very heightened inside of a moment of a Supreme Court decision that doesn't go our way, or a right that's been stripped,

she says

We are eight years later. Two presidential terms later. We're post-COVID, post-Jan. 6, [2021], post-Dobbs,

she says