{"id":38966,"date":"2026-03-10T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=38966"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:38:22","slug":"international-womens-day-western-europe-and-scandinavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=38966","title":{"rendered":"International Women’s Day: West Europe and Scandinavia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. WOMEN’S EQUALITY . .<\/p>\n

A press survey by CPNN<\/p>\n

Here are the results from Western Europe and Scandinavia.<\/p>\n

BELGIUM<\/p>\n

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\nPeople protest outside the Iranian embassy as part of International Women’s day in Brussels, Belgium March 8, 2023. REUTERS\/Johanna Geron<\/a>
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FINLAND<\/p>\n

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\nThousands of people marched through central Helsinki on Sunday to mark International Women\u2019s Day and call for stronger protection of women\u2019s rights. Police estimated that up to 15,000 participants joined the demonstration. Photo: Seppo Samuli \/ Str \/ Lehtikva.<\/a>
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FRANCE, BORDEAUX<\/p>\n

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\nA protestor holds a sign reading “Male executioner” (with a play on word with the cigarettes brand Malboro) in Bordeaux. (Photo by ROMAIN PERROCHEAU \/ AFP)
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FRANCE, LILLE<\/p>\n

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\nLille: stilt walkers also joined the march on March 8, 2026. \u2022 \u00a9 Morvan Antoine \/ France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions
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FRANCE, PARIS<\/p>\n

\"\"The International Women’s Day in Paris attracted around 32,000 people, according to police. Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD \/ AFP<\/a>
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GERMANY, BERLIN<\/p>\n

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\nOn International Women\u2019s Day yesterday, tens of thousands of Berliners demonstrated in Germany\u2019s capital for equal rights for women. The sign “FEMINISMUS STATT FASCHISMUS” means “FEMINISM INSTEAD OF FASCISM”. Other hand-held signs included the phrases \u201cEvery death is one too many\u201d, \u201cEquality is not rocket science\u201d and \u201cMan does not kill for love\u201d.<\/a>
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GERMANY, ERFURT<\/p>\n


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\nErfurt, Germany had it\u2019s first Take Back the Night demo, supporting anti-fascist solidarity and bodily autonomy.<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

GREECE<\/p>\n

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\nWomen participate in a rally marking International Women\u2019s Day in Athens. In his message, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said: \u201cInternational Women\u2019s Day becomes, every year, a meeting point between our achievements and the goal of turning equality into a daily reality, by overturning the many visible and invisible obstacles that still remain.\u201d [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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IRELAND<\/p>\n

\"\"People march to mark International Women’s Day in Dublin, Ireland, March 8, 2023. REUTERS\/Clodagh Kilcoyne
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ITALY, MILAN<\/p>\n

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\nIn Milan, over 40 thousand people joined the march called by Non Una Di Meno, with the lead banner reading \u201cdisarm war and patriarchy\u201d.
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ITALY, ROME <\/p>\n

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\nDemonstrators carry a banner that reads: “Against wars, violence and poverty. Eco transfeminist strike” during an International Women’s Day rally, as women strike to demand the end to domestic and racist violence, wars and the country’s prevailing “macho” culture, in Rome, Italy, March 8, 2023. REUTERS\/Yara Nardi
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MALTA<\/p>\n

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\nA woman holds a poster as people take part in a Women’s Day protest with the theme “Women united against injustice” in Valletta, Malta March 8, 2023. REUTERS\/Darrin Zammit Lupi<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

NETHERLANDS<\/p>\n

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\nParticipants march through the streets of Amsterdam, Netherlands, on March 8, 2026, holding signs advocating for gender equality during an International Women\u2019s Day demonstration.<\/a>
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SPAIN, BARCELONA<\/p>\n

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\nPeople 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)<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

SPAIN, BILBAO<\/p>\n

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\nPeople take part in a march to mark International Women’s Day, in Bilbao, Spain, March 8, 2023. REUTERS\/Vincent West<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

SPAIN, LONGRO\u00d1O<\/p>\n

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\nAround 2,000 people participated this Sunday in the International Women’s Day demonstration, which turned the streets of downtown Logro\u00f1o 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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

SPAIN, MADRID<\/p>\n

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\nThousands 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 Jim\u00e9nez<\/a>
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SPAIN, M\u00c9RIDA<\/p>\n

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\nIn M\u00e9rida, 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 M\u00e9rida-based platform, Mar\u00eda 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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

SPAIN, PAMPLONA<\/p>\n

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\nMassive march in Pamplona EFE\/ Jes\u00fas Diges
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SPAIN, SANTANDER<\/p>\n

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\nThe 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 Garc\u00eda
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SPAIN, TOLEDO<\/p>\n

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\nIn 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\/\u00c1ngeles Visd\u00f3mine
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SPAIN, VAL\u00c9NCIA<\/p>\n

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\nThe 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
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SPAIN, VALLADOLID<\/p>\n

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\nThe 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
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TURKEY<\/p>\n

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\nThousands of women marched through Istanbul to mark International Women\u2019s 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: \u201cKurdish for Women, life, freedom,\u201d \u201cFemicides are political!\u201d or even \u201cMy favorite season is the fall of the patriarchy.\u201d Photo AFP.
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UNITED KINGDOM<\/p>\n

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\nThousands 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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