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Women coal loaders pose for a picture in Jharia coalfield, India, November 10, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Tanmoy Bhaduri

International Women's Day

Updated: March 07, 2024

The world marks International Women's Day on March 8th, and the year since the last celebration has been shaped by both trouble and triumphs for women's rights.

From tackling gender pay gaps to fighting for abortion access, women continue to fight for equality from positions of power to factory floors.

Here is a look at some of our stories about women’s rights and the fight for gender equality around the world.

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Afghan women's rights defenders and civil activists protest to call on the Taliban for the preservation of their achievements and education, in front of the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Socioeconomic Inclusion Should 'gender apartheid' be an international crime?

Protesters hold banners during Abortion Rights Solidarity demonstration, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion, outside the U.S. embassy in London, Britain July 9, 2022.

Socioeconomic Inclusion Abortion laws in Europe - legal rollbacks and progress

People hold a banner which reads 'Abortion is a fundamental right' during a demonstration organised by the collective 'Abortion Europe, women decide' as the French Senate examines a bill to include abortion in the Constitution, at the Place de la Sorbonne in Paris, France, February 28, 2024. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor

Socioeconomic Inclusion Why is France making abortion a constitutional right?

Renuka Karunarathna speaks to another woman farmer near Sapumal Thenna in Sri Lanka. August 2023. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Ranga Udugama

Climate Risks Domestic violence is cost of climate change for Sri Lankan women

President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Britain's King Charles, and officials pose for a family photo during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 1, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky

Climate Justice When will leaders get it? We can’t solve climate change without gender equality

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Climate Justice Breaking the green glass ceiling: Where were the women at COP28's World Climate Action Summit?

A woman works at a desk in the Lloyd's of London building in the City of London financial district in London, Britain, April 16, 2019.REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Socioeconomic Inclusion Why do women in Britain and the EU get paid less than men?

People hold a green handkerchief as members of the Information Group on Reproductive Choice (GIRE) organization gather to celebrate days after the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional for the federal government to criminalize abortion, in Mexico City, Mexico, September 13, 2023

Socioeconomic Inclusion Latin American women denied abortions despite decriminalisation

A woman works on the interior mould of a shoe at the San Antonio Shoe Factory in Del Rio, Texas, U.S., April 3, 2023

Socioeconomic Inclusion Big companies making "dismal" progress on gender equality - report

Sabrina Walter, founder of Women For Change, poses for a portrait as she holds up a sign at an anti-GBV Cape Town protest in South Africa, August 2021

Digital Rights Abused South African women log on for online lifeline

Women ministers and politicians from Europe and Canada attend a discussion during a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain June 29, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Socioeconomic Inclusion Women in parliament: Which countries are making progress?

Sudanese girls who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, walk beside makeshift shelters holding each other's hands in Adre, Chad July 29, 2023

Socioeconomic Inclusion Women's charities sound alarm as aid cuts hit equality spending

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