Women worldwide participated in International Women's Day participating in strikes and demonstration

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On Friday, women worldwide participated in International Women's Day, participating in strikes, marches, and demonstrations, highlighting endeavors to combat discrimination and expedite progress towards gender equality.

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00:00 In Italy, International Women's Day, as is tradition, is marked by a general strike.

00:06 Thousands of people took to the streets demanding more effective policies against gender-based

00:11 discrimination and violence.

00:13 The demonstration was called by the majority of trade unions.

00:17 In Pristina, hundreds of women took to the streets to protest against domestic violence

00:22 and the injustice they suffer.

00:24 It was a demonstration in the context of International Women's Day, but with a clear message.

00:29 We march, not celebrate.

00:31 The demonstrators demand more action for the authorities to protect women from systemic

00:36 violence and for higher wages.

00:38 It's Time for Justice was the slogan of the march that marked the day in Montenegro.

00:43 Citizens, local and national representatives, and non-governmental organizations gathered

00:48 to call for an end to discrimination, marginalization, or minimization of women.

00:53 In Afghanistan, a group of women from the Afghan Women's Uprising Movement staged a

00:58 protest against the oppressive restrictions imposed by the Taliban regime.

01:02 With their faces hidden for fear of reprisals, they shouted "No" to gender apartheid.

01:07 on the sun.

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