Tens of thousands of women around the world marked International Women’s Day by demonstrating against gender-based violence and calling for an end to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Here in the U.S., protesters gathered at Zorro Ranch in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked underage girls and young women. In New York, protesters gathered outside Trump Tower, calling it the “Believe Survivors” demonstration. In France, 73-year old rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot led a march calling for an end to sexual violence. In Brazil, protesters expressed outrage over the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro earlier this year. In Peru, thousands of women marched in the capital Lima demanding government action against gender-based violence.

Protester: “For Women’s Day, what we’re calling on all peasant and Indigenous women is that we can’t give up. We know life circumstances are very hard because climate change has devastated everything in Peru. Cities are disappearing. So, what we have to do, as our grandmothers, grandfathers and ancestors always taught us, is rise up from the dust with our native seeds. We’ll keep guaranteeing life and peace, guaranteeing food sovereignty. Be strong, comrades.”