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Nearly one in two high school teachers, and one in four primary school teachers, go on strike against President Macron's plans to reform France's education sector and cut jobs - the first time all teaching unions have agreed to strike together since 2011. IMAGES
A number of protests and events took place around the world on Thursday 8 March for International Women's Day. In Paris, demonstrators gathered in the capital's Place de la République. 1ST IMAGES OF PROTESTS IN PARIS
Civil servants in Paris turn out in low numners to march in an attempt to wrest pay rises from the French government despite a tight budgetary situation. IMAGES
In a show of support for a principal threatened with a knife by a student on Friday, the French Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet met with staff at the secondary school, before participating in a round table on school security at Chenove town hall, near Dijon, in eastern France. IMAGES
Police are present near Sciences Po, after the Prefecture of Police banned a rally, called by the 'Urgence Palestine' collective, in front of the prestigious French university. Sciences Po is accused of allowing anti-semitism to flourish against a backdrop of pro-Gaza protests. 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