Most powerful photos as world marks International Women's Day
REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Events are taking place around the globe on Sunday to mark International Women's Day 2020.
While some celebrations have been impacted by the spread of coronavirus, women around the world are still protesting, parading, and partying.
Here are some of the best and most powerful photos from the day so far.
A woman wears an embroidered face mask at a rally in Santiago, Chile.
Stringer/Reuters
Protestors demand gender equality in demonstrations outside of Mexico City.
LUISA GONZALEZ/Reuters
Marchers in London hold signs with messages of gender equality at a "March 4 Women" parade.
TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images
A woman holds a placard during a protest against women's inequality and sexual violence in Nepal, where International Women's Day is an official holiday for women.
Sujan Shrestha/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
People gather in Santander, Spain, holding colorful signs and a banner reading "Feminista."
Celestino Arce/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Groups of people display feminist hand symbols at a parade in Madrid, Spain.
Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images
A participant in Rio de Janeiro holds a sign showing the late Marielle Franco, a Brazilian politician and feminist rights activist.
PILAR OLIVARES/Reuters
Source: The New York Times
A man wears a mask with a hand-drawn pair of lips during a Women's March in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
LIM HUEY TENG/Reuters
A woman in a gas mask at a protest in Paris holds a placard that reads: "Patriarchy-virus. We are the antidote."
REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
Women in Belarus, Minsk take part in a "Beauty Run" race.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
A young girl holds a rose during an event marking International Women's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan.
AP Photo/Rahmat Gul
Bangladeshi disabled women playing basketball during a match in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka on Sunday.
Mehedi Hasan/NurPhoto via Getty Images
A member of the United Russia Young Guard holds a placard reading "You're the World's 8th Wonder" during a march to mark International Women's Day.
Donat Sorokin\TASS via Getty Images
Indonesian people participate in a colourful march in Jakarta on Sunday.
ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images
A man wearing a protective suit carries flowers for female students of the Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The students are under quarantine at the dormitory as part of precautions against the spread of coronavirus after an Italian exchange student who returned to Russia tested positive for the virus.
REUTERS/Anton Vaganov
Femen activists demonstrate at Place de la Concorde in Paris to call for gender equality.
MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images
A Filipino woman covers her face with a cloth as she joins a flash mob to occupy a street in Manila, Philippines.
REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Women Asylum Seekers, waiting at Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing to reach Europe, stage a demonstration at the buffer zone demanding to open the gate during International Women's Day.
Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Kyrgyz law enforcement officers detain a women's rights activist during a rally in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov
Flowers are presented to participants of a 400m race held on Moscow's Pushkinskaya Embankment to mark International Women's Day.
Anton Novoderezhkin\TASS via Getty Image
Filipino women exchange flowers during a protest in Manila, Philippines.
REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Women bang pots and pans while protesting in Sol Square, Madrid to mark the start of International Women's Day.
Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images
Read more:
When women got the right to vote in 25 places around the world
Read the original article on Insider
