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The UN rights chief warns that the world needs to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality and rampant climate change. "We are at a fork in the road: We can either continue on our current path — a treacherous ‘new normal’ — and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet," Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council. SOUNDBITE
Thousands of Mexican women chant and march through Mexico City to demand their rights on International Women's Day. IMAGES
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
French MPs and Senators meeting in the Congress of Versailles have overwhelmingly voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the Constitution, announced the Speaker of the House, Yael Braun-Pivet, making France the first country in the world to do so explicitly. 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
Spanish World Cup-winning star Jenni Hermoso leaves court after testifying about the kiss forced on her by disgraced former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales. In the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid, the 33-year-old testified before Judge Francisco de Jorge, who is investigating Rubiales on allegations of sexual assault and coercion. IMAGES
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