From Madrid to Bishkek, March 8 does not stop

From Madrid to Kyrgyzstan, via the 'hot' Greek-Turkish border, neither fear of coronavirus infection nor repression and intimidation stopped women's marches on March 8, convened to remember that gender discrimination around the world does not seem to decline. On the border between Turkey and Greece, crowded with migrants brought in by the Ankara authorities, several hundred women demonstrated demanding that the desperate be allowed to enter Europe. In Pakistan demonstrations of women in various cities have challenged petitions to ban them and violent threats from Islamic fundamentalists. In Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, women's rights demonstrators challenged the police, who arrested hundreds of them, but also masked and armed clubs with batons. In Belarus the march for March 8 took the form of a carnival with many costumed demonstrators. In Madrid, a few thousand women gave birth to a 'cacerolazo', beating the pots.