(8 Mar 2025)
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Santiago, Chile – 8 March 2025
1. A woman rising her fist during Women’s Day march, with La Moneda government house and Chilean flag in background
2. Women in purple marching with banners
3. A woman holding a banner reading (Spanish) "Do you think there are many of us? Thousands are missing."
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sabina Cardenas, teacher, 42 years old:
“I came to march with my daughter to demand gender equality, especially in childhood, because girls will grow up to become women, and we want a fairer world for all girls and women in this country and around the world.”
5. Woman marching, holding a banner reading (Spanish) "Teacher fighting is also teaching."
6. Two women holding hands
7. Women dancing
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Quito, Ecuador – 8 March 2025
8. Various of hundreds marching through the streets of Quito
9. A woman holding a banner reading (Spanish) "March 8 is not a party day, it’s a day for protest and fighting"
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rosita Rojas, spokesperson of the Transfeminist Assembly:
“For us (8M) is a vindication of all the previous struggles that have brought us to this point. It must also be said that other things have to be discussed. We are against fascism. We do not want our rights to be taken away from us and we also want it to be recognized that our bodies are a territory. And our territories have to be protected.”
11. Various of women marching through the streets of Quito
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 8 March 2025
12. Thousands marching though a Buenos Aires main avenue to mark Women’s Day
13. Women holding colored smoke sticks
14. Woman holding banner with caricature of Argentine president Javier Milei
15. Woman holding a banner reading (Spanish) "Being free is knowing I can go back home"
16. Women playing drums
17. Women holding banners reading (Spanish) "Feminism is anti-racist, anti-fascist"
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luciana Moreno, Product Design student:
"This march reminds us that we are not alone. The nickname of hysterical, persecuted and crazy, when we meet, disappears. It works for us, it has always worked for us. I always took this march and other meetings as a ritual."
19. Women singing
20. March
STORYLINE:
Thousands of women took to the streets of capitals across Latin America on Saturday to mark International Women’s Day and demand gender equality and an end to gender-based violence.
Led by feminist and human rights organizations, the march in Chilean capital Santiago parade down the main Alameda avenue, with participants chanting, carrying banners, and expressing their demands through artistic performances.
“I came to march with my daughter to demand gender equality, especially in childhood, because girls will grow up to become women, and we want a fairer world for all girls and women in this country and around the world.” said Sabina Cardenas, a teacher and protester.
In Quito, Ecuador’s capital, hundreds joined the demonstration, calling for the eradication of violence against women, the legalization of abortion, and an end to what they consider a systemic inequalities that disadvantage women.
Rosita Rojas, a young spokesperson for the Transfeminist Assembly of Quito, marched wearing a purple wool mask.
"We are against fascism. We do not want our rights to be taken away from us and we also want it to be recognized that our bodies are a territory. And our territories have to be protected.” Rojas stated.
AP Video by Sebastian Moscoso, Cesar Olmos and Cristian Kovadlof
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