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Hundreds march to mark women’s day
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Beirut’s streets Sunday for the annual International Women’s Day march, uniting under the slogan “For a just economy, we will march.”
The march - replete with signs and banners calling for equal rights and improved living conditions - began under Fouad Chehab’s Bridge and ended at Mina al-Hosn.
“Economic inequalities and the capitalist system affect us all on many layers, based on race, citizenship, gender, sexuality and our access to services, and our ability to be independent in our choices and take care of our bodies,” Sarah Kaddoura, one of the march’s organizers and a sexuality hotline coordinator at the A Project, an organization that aims to reaffirm autonomy in mental health and sexuality, told The Daily Star.