International Women's Rights Day mobilized this Friday, in various forms. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of "a step backwards" for women's rights, "in both developing and developed countries" Thousands of people took to the streets of Rome and Milan for demonstrations calling in particular for an end to violence against women.
Irish were called to the polls for a referendum intended to modernize the references to women and the family in their Constitution, written in 1937 when the Catholic Church reigned in the country over public and private life.