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Members of feminist organizations demonstrate in favour of the decriminalization of abortion on International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City. IMAGES
On International Women's Day, women gather out the front of parliament calling on lawmakers to pass the long awaited bill to protect domestic workers. They hold colourful placards and posters, some printed with the face of parliament speaker Puan Maharani, and chant "long live Indonesian women". IMAGES
Tibetan protesters gather in New Delhi to protest against the Beijing Winter Olympics, which are due to open on Friday night. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will announce the Games are officially open, will be joined by leaders including his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, but the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia are among countries staging a diplomatic boycott over China's human rights record. IMAGES
Amnesty's secretary general Agnes Callamard calls on Israel to "put an end to apartheid against all Palestinians" during a press conference in Jerusalem, joining the assessment of other rights groups which the Jewish state vehemently rejects. IMAGES
Buenos Aires, Mar 23 (EFE).- Argentina's government on Tuesday honored three human rights groups for their efforts to bring attention to the 1976-1983 military dictatorship's "dirty war" against political opponents.FOOTAGE COURTESY OF ARGENTINASTATEMENTS BY ALBERTO FERNANDEZ, PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA:"A group of mothers appeared one day in that society that was so terrified (and) began to stand up to the dictators, the genocidal killers, began asking them where their children were. With astonishment, we began to see the courage of those mothers."AND HORACIO PIETRAGALLA, SECRETARY OF HUMAN RIGHTS: "Our mothers and grandmothers taught us that the struggle for memory, truth and justice sprang from love. They've never demanded revenge ... on the contrary, the violence was always directed against them."
Rights groups protest in Istanbul after Turkey withdrew from the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women, sparking both domestic and international outrage. IMAGES