Members of Women Muslim Uighur minority hold placards and flags of east Turkestan as they demonstrate to ask for news of their relatives and to express their concern about the ratification of an extradition treaty between China and Turkey, near China consulate in Istanbul on March 8, 2021 during the International Women Day. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)
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British artist Vicky Lim, a member of the Wom Collective, a female street art collective, works on their new piece of street art in Brixton, south London, on March 7, 2021 to celebrate International Women's Day. (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)more
Frustrated parents gather outside Danie Malan School in Pretoria, 8 March 2021, as they are still waiting for their children to be placed. Picture: Marizka Coetzer
Demonstrators hold placards during the “I Can’t Breathe - Silent March for Justice” in front of the Hennepin County Government Center on March 7, 2021, where the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with murdering African American man George Floyd, will begin on March 8, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - His name is chanted by demonstrators around the globe. His face is displayed on murals all over the United States. Since his brutal death George Floyd has embodied, more than any other, the Black victims of police violence and racism in the United States. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)more
Refugees at the Daikonia Centre on March 08, 2021 in Durban, South Africa. It is reported that the foreign nationals were allegedly attacked by a mob purporting to be members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA). (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)more
Rider Noah Gregory pulls a skier while competing in the 73rd annual Leadville Ski Joring weekend competition on March 7, 2021 in Leadville, Colorado. - Skijoring, which has its origins as a competitive sport in Scandinavia, has been adapted over the years to include a team made up of a rider and skier who must navigate jumps, slalom gates, and the spearing of rings for points. In the spirit of the Wild West, and despite the coronavirus pandemic, Leadville continued the annual tradition by relocating the race course from the city center, and not allowing spectators. Leadville, with an elevation of 10,152 feet (3,094 m), the highest incorporated city in North America, has been hosting skijoring competitions since 1949. (Photo by Jason Connolly / AFP)more
Security personnel march before the second plenary session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 8, 2021. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP)
A man wearing a cross necklace and clad in mask depicting the Lebanese flag stands next to flaming tires at a make-shift roadblock set-up by anti-government demonstrators in the area of Dora on the northern outskirts of Lebanon's capital Beirut on March 8, 2021 during a protest against the deteriorating value of the local currency and dire economic and social conditions. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)more
Members of the group "Gang du Clito" carry a five meters high inflatable clitoris to denounce sexual illiteracy to mark the International Women's Day on the Parvis des Droits de l'Homme (Human Rights plaza) facing the Eiffel Tower in Paris on March 8, 2021. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)more
A man cleans a street during heavy snowfalls in the village of Zykeyevo some 45 km outside Moscow, on March 8, 2021. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)
Women farmers listen to a speaker as they continue to demonstrate against the central government's recent agricultural reformson on the occasion of International Women's Day at at Delhi-Haryana state border, in Singhu on March 8, 2021. (Photo by AFP)more
Algerian women chant slogans during an anti-government protest in the capital Algiers on March 8, 2021. - Thousands of people demonstrated in Algiers and other cities across the country, confirming the remobilisation of the Hirak protest movement again in the streets since the second anniversary of the uprising on February 22. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)more
People gather on roofs to watch as police block supporters of main opposition candidate, Ousmane Sonko, outside the Justice Palace in Dakar on March 8, 2021. - Protests have been ongoing after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was arrested following rape charges. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)more
A supporter of main opposition candidate, Ousmane Sonko, reacts in protest outside the Justice Palace in Dakar on March 8, 2021. - Protests have been ongoing after the Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was arrested following rape charges. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)more
An aerial view taken on March 8, 2021, shows Chinese fishing vessel Lurong Yuan Yu that ran aground on reefs of Pointe-aux-Sables in Port Louis, Mauritius, on March 7, 2021. (Photo by L'Express Maurice / AFP)more
Members of Women Muslim Uighur minority hold placards and flags of east Turkestan as they demonstrate to ask for news of their relatives and to express their concern about the ratification of an extradition treaty between China and Turkey, near China consulate in Istanbul on March 8, 2021 during the International Women Day. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)more
A girl puts flowers at an installation of women's red shoes displayed on staircase, as a symbol to denounce violence against women, at Durresi main square in Tirana, on International Women's Day, on March 8, 2021. (Photo by Gent SHKULLAKU / AFP)more
A child spins a fireball near a bonfire during the celebration of Shrovetide in the village Goren Lozen near Sofia, Bulgaria, 07 March 2021. Shrovetide is the last day Orthodox Christians are allowed to eat dairy products before Easter fasting. Picture: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEVmore
A Chaco golden knee (Grammostola pulchripes) is presented at the exhibition of spiders and scorpions from all inhabited continents at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, 07 March 2021. Picture: EPA-EFE/Pawel Supernakmore
Demonstrators prepare to clash with the police during a protest in Yangon, Myanmar, 08 March 2021. Major trade unions in Myanmar called on members to go on strike on 08 March to shut down the economy amid intensifying violent crackdowns on demonstrators by security forces. More than 50 people have died in the crackdown by security forces, since the military coup on 01 February 2021. Picture: EPA-EFE/LYNN BO BOmore
The pack rides past a wind farm during the 2nd stage of the 79th Paris - Nice cycling race, 188 km between Oinville-sur-Montcent and Amilly, on March 8, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)more
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