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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
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
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
The Women's March returns to Washington, DC with hundreds protesting in favour of abortion rights in the US capital, two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision that enshrined a nationwide right to abortion. IMAGES
Thousands protest for a third consecutive night in Warsaw and other parts of Poland after the country's right-wing government implemented a court ruling imposing a near-total ban on abortion. Protesters have defied coronavirus restrictions and sub-zero temperatures to rally after the controversial judgement was given legal force on Wednesday 27 January 2021. IMAGES