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French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen pay tribute to Jean Monnet and Simone Veil, pillars of European construction, at the Pantheon in Paris. IMAGES
Fatoumatta Sandeng Darboe, the daughter of Solo Sandeng who was tortured and killed during the Yaya Jammeh regime in Gambia, reacts to the sentencing of Gambian ex-interior minister Ousman Sonko to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity: "We are actually happy that the responsibility of Ousmane Sonko in all of what has happened in the Gambia and the time that he served and even in the 22 years rule of Yaya Jammeh is put out there and it's made clear to everyone that people are held responsible for what they have done." SOUNDBITES
Poles take to the streets of Warsaw on International Women's Day to demand free access to contraceptives. Although pro-Western parties managed to oust the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government in October 2023 elections, women are voicing anger and frustration over delays in changing the laws on women's reproductive rights. The PiS's eight-year rule saw access to abortion, in-vitro fertilisation and emergency contraception tightened. IMAGES
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron along with France's leading political and artistic personalities arrive for the national tribute to Robert Badinter at the Place Vendôme in Paris, home of the Ministry of Justice, where the late former Minister of Justice led the fight to abolish the death penalty in France, in 1981. IMAGES
The trial of Ousman Sonko, a Gambian former interior minister accused of crimes against humanity committed under the regime of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh, opens in Switzerland. The trial is taking place under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows a foreign country to prosecute crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide regardless of where they were committed. IMAGES
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