Images from International Women's Day 2016

All the images below are from The Guardian. Credits are beneath each photo.

I am wishing all girls and women physical safety, economic security, clean water, nutritious food, control over their own bodies and land, and power in their own lives.

Mexico City, MexicoA member of the indigenous Zapatista National Liberation 

Army (EZLN) takes part in a demonstration to mark 

International Women’s Day, outside the Palacio de 

Bellas Artes

Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters

Bhopal, IndiaTribal artists during a rally for International Women’s Day

Photograph: Sanjeev Gupta/EPA

Manila, PhilippinesA Filipino mother with her child march during 

a parade to mark International Women’s Day

Photograph: Francis R. Malasig/EPA

Port-au-Prince, HaitiOn International Women’s Day a woman sells 

cleaning products near children playing, in Jalousie 

neighbourhood, in the commune of Petion Ville

Photograph: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

Happy International Women's Day!!!!

poster from the 100th IWD in 2011 is from here

From internationalwomensday.com:

IWD is now an official holiday in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal (for women only), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. The tradition sees men honouring their mothers, wives, girlfriends, colleagues, etc with flowers and small gifts. In some countries IWD has the equivalent status of Mother's Day where children give small presents to their mothers and grandmothers.

In celebration of all the work, all the hard labor, all the unrecognised contributions women across the globe make to humanity, especially to their own humanity, I post this in honor of women around the world!