Groundbreaking protests led by women around the world

Feb20,,2024

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Meira Paibis is a women's social organization of Manipur who have been involved in several key agitations across the state since violence broke out in Manipur on May 3, 2023.

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Meira Paibis protest, 2023

The Women's March was a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president. 

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Women's March, 2017

AGIR, the Association of Female Indigenous Warriors from Rondônia, was formed to help combat the low participation of women in decision-making in the indigenous community of Brazil

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Association of Female Indigenous Warriors, 2015

In 1981, the Women with Disabilities Feminist Collective (WDFC) staged a protest at the Miss Australia Quest, a beauty pageant that raised funds for the Spastic Society. 

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Women with feminist disabilities collective, 1981

One of the more peaceful protests took place on February 19, 1968, when over 400 women in London began a silent march from outside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square to Downing Street.

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Vietnam War, 1968

The march was part of the Anti-Pass Campaign, which protested the introduction of pass laws in 1952 that would limit the movement and work of Black, Indian, and colored women.

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Women's Anti-Pass March, 1956

100 women cleaners protested their low wages by marching a third of a mile from London's Temple Gardens to Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1949

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Mops on the March, 1949

In 1946, the mass organization for women, the Democratic Women's Union of North Korea, was established to unite the women's movement under the KWP,

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Korean Women's Democratic Party, 1946

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911 is considered a pivotal moment in history. The fire killed 146 workers and injured many more.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 1911