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Added on the 20/06/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
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
Women demonstrate in favour of the decriminalization of abortion on International Day for the Right to Abortion, in front of the Supreme Court in Santiago de Chile. IMAGES
Hundreds of protesters march through Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires in favour of the decriminalization of abortion and access to sexual education, on the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean. IMAGES
Thousands of people gather in Vancouver to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died a few days after her arrest by religious police for allegedly violating the strict dress code for women in force since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. IMAGES
Dozens of abortion rights supporters rally against a Texas judge's decision to reverse the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, DC. On Friday, the nation's highest court temporarily preserved access to mifepristone, in an 11th-hour ruling preventing lower court restrictions on the drug from coming into force. IMAGES