International Women’s Day
SPAIN, BARCELONA
People attend a demonstration on the occasion of International Women’s Day in Barcelona, Spain, March 8, 2026. The main theme was opposition to the American and Israeli attack on Iran (EPA Photo)
SPAIN, BILBAO
People take part in a march to mark International Women’s Day, in Bilbao, Spain, March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Vincent West
SPAIN, LONGROÑO
Around 2,000 people participated this Sunday in the International Women’s Day demonstration, which turned the streets of downtown Logroño purple with demands commemorating the rights won by feminism, fighting to prevent any backsliding on equality, and rejecting all forms of violence against women.. Phoro: EFE/Raquel Manzanares
SPAIN, MADRID
Thousands of marchers gathered in the center of Madrid, where two demonstrations were held. The larger march, organized by the 8M Commission, marched from Atocha to Seville, carrying a banner with the slogan “Antifascist Feminists. We are more. Everywhere.” “We are facing a bunch of pathetic bastards who are going to burn the planet to gain even more money and power, who treat life like a video game,” reads the manifesto of the organizers, who claim 160,000 participants. Photo: EFE/Rodrigo Jiménez
SPAIN, MÉRIDA
In Mérida, among banners and chanted slogans such as “Long live the women’s struggle,” “Less fascism and more feminism,” “The struggle continues, whatever the cost,” and “Against denialism, we are feminism,” the “No to war” slogan was also present at the march with approximately 200 people, according to the police, and 1,500 according to the organizers. The representative of the Mérida-based platform, María Tena, told the media that they are demanding “no to war and the fight against all global fascism, which is trying to use women’s rights as a commodity, as an instrument of political change, and as a weapon to throw us into situations of armed conflict.” Photo: EFE/ Vicente M. Roso
SPAIN, PAMPLONA
Massive march in Pamplona EFE/ Jesús Diges
SPAIN, SANTANDER
The streets of Santander were filled with thousands of people this Sunday to celebrate International Women’s Day. Throughout the route, various feminist organizations and associations raised their banners and chanted slogans, including messages for transgender women, interracial women, and the precarious working conditions women face. They also denounced sexist violence, with messages such as “rapists existed before the miniskirt” or “sexism kills, feminism saves lives.” Photo: EFE/Eva García
SPAIN, TOLEDO
In Toledo, the demonstration began in Parque de la Vega with a “No to war” slogan, asserting that “feminism is internationalist.” The march, which brought together hundreds of people, proceeded from the park to Plaza de Zocodover, where the message was proclaimed that feminists “won’t be silenced.” Photo: EFE/Ángeles Visdómine
SPAIN, VALÉNCIA
The Women’s Day demonstration organized by the Valencia Feminist Movement marched through the city center this Sunday to express its “outright rejection” of the violence and denial of rights perpetrated against girls and women “simply for being women” and to demand “real equality.” The protest, which turned the streets of Valencia purple under the slogan “Democracy without feminism = Barbarism,” also said “no to wars, the ultimate expression of patriarchy and the system of domination,” because a world at war, it asserted, “can never be a world of equality.” Photo: EFE/ Ana Escobar
SPAIN, VALLADOLID
The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, holds a banner with the slogan ‘We will not let the past advance’ during a demonstration organized by the Valladolid Women’s Coordinator for International Women’s Day. Photogenic/Claudia Alba Photogenic/Claudia Alba / Europa Press
TURKEY
Thousands of women marched through Istanbul to mark International Women’s Day late Sunday defying a ban on demonstrations, with the rally passing without incident despite a heavy police presence. The demonstrators packed the streets of Cihangir district, some carrying parasols garlanded in fairy lights, others waving a sea of colorful banners with slogans such as: “Kurdish for Women, life, freedom,” “Femicides are political!” or even “My favorite season is the fall of the patriarchy.” Photo AFP.
UNITED KINGDOM
Thousands of women took to the streets of central London on Saturday for the 19th annual Million Women Rise march, against male violence against women and girls ( Photo by Ellie Macieria-Fielding for The New Feminist)
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The International Women’s Day in Paris attracted around 32,000 people, according to police. Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP
People march to mark International Women’s Day in Dublin, Ireland, March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
