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Women urge unity to advance rights on International Women's Day.
(From Agence France Presse)
Women marked International Women's Day around the world with vibrant calls for unity to advance sexual equality and women's rights.
Iran's Nobel peace prize laureate and Iranian human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi set the tone, saying in Geneva that she was in "mourning for women's rights" on this day.
In Tehran several hundred Iranian female activists staged a rally to mark International Women's Day, despite warnings from authorities that the gathering was illegal.
"Today, because of the situation of women, the discrimination they face, I am wearing black not only for women in my country but also around the world," Ebadi told an audience at the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Wearing a black suit and without a veil or headscarf, the 2003 Nobel peace prize…
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