by InTrieste
Hundreds took part in the protest, from piazza Hortis to piazza Oberdan, against violence against women and to support women’s rights, including abortion and equal pay, this Friday afternoon, 8th of March.
Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world. Protests are often political and, at times, violent, rooted in women’s efforts to improve their rights as workers.
While the idea behind a women’s day originated in U.S. with the American Socialist Party in 1909, it was a German feminist who pushed for a global commemoration during an international conference of socialist women held in 1910 in Copenhagen. The following year, events across Europe marked the day, and during World War I, women used it to protest the armed conflict, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.
The Trieste protests saw three hundred participants take to the streets, chanting, and demanding equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice, decision-making jobs and other essential needs.
