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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

Published: March 07, 2023

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. 

Setbacks such as the death of Roe v Wade in the US and the Taliban's attacks on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan have resonated globally, but 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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Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 1, 2021
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Workers assemble electric scooters at the Ather Energy factory in Hosur, India, April 20, 2022
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People watch a performance at Comedy Club on its first night back open after loosened restrictions during the continued outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York, U.S., April 2, 2021
Socioeconomic InclusionComedy can be a weird and frustrating place if you are a woman
A woman poses as she observes a period calendar tracker app on her mobile phone at her home in Madrid, Spain, May 16, 2022
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Women use their mobile phones at a university in Semenyih, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 3, 2017
Digital DividesGender equality and bodily autonomy in a ‘datafied’ world
Shefali Akter works at a Snowtex Outerware garment factory in Dhamrai, Bangladesh, January 30, 2023. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Mosabber Hossain
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An Afghan woman holds her phone after an election campaign by Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in Kabul June 8, 2014
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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 InclusionWomen in parliament: Which countries are making progress?
A woman selling food at a stall gazes at people at the bus station she works at in Douala November 4, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney
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A veiled girl from the Saraniya community waits for her engagement ceremony to start at Vadia village in the western Indian state of Gujarat March 11, 2012
Socioeconomic InclusionIndian child marriage arrests leave teen brides in the lurch
A woman wears a pin in support of Black mothers during a hearing titled, 'Birthing While Black: Examining America's Black Maternal Health Crisis' on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 6, 2021
Socioeconomic InclusionCan the United States fix Black women's maternal mortality crisis?
A graphic illustration of different faces, with blurred out eyes and covered mouths, in front of quotation marks
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A midwife provides information to a pregnant woman during a pre-natal check-up in Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, October 2, 2022
Socioeconomic InclusionAfghan women aid workers lose hope after Taliban ban
Afghan schoolgirls clutch UNICEF textbooks as school materials are distributed to students in Kabul, March 25, 2002. REUTERS/Jim Hollander
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