Thousands of people took to the streets across the world on Saturday to condemn violence against women on the international day highlighting the crime.
On the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, protesters marched in Europe and the Americas.
"The scourge of gender-based violence continues to inflict pain and injustice on too many," US President Joe Biden said in a statement. "Particularly in areas of conflict, countless women and girls suffer at the hands of perpetrators who commit gender-based violence and use rape as a weapon of war."
In the Chilean capital of Santiago, some 1,000 protesters marched through the streets Friday night, chanting "Not one step backward" and demanding action by the government to protect women. A women's advocacy group estimates that 40 femicides have occurred in the country this year.
In Italy, which has been shaken by the murder of a 22-year-old university student allegedly by her former boyfriend, some 50,000 people, according to the AGI news agency, demonstrated in Rome.
In Turkey, some 500 women gathered in the Sisli district in Istanbul, as riot police stood by, unfurling banners reading "We will not remain silent" and "Women are united and fighting against male-state violence."
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