Several hundred people demonstrated in Paris on Sunday, on the eve of International Women's Rights Day.
The organizers of the rally called "to stop working and consuming" on Monday, in protest against inequalities.
About 300 people, overwhelmingly women, gathered in Paris on Sunday to defend women's rights "internationally" and call on them to "strike everything" on Monday, AFP journalists noted.
"When women stop, everything stops!", Launched one of the organizers of the event, which took place at Place de la République at the call of "On Arrête All", a collective of associations feminists.
"This year", March 8, the date of International Women's Rights Day, "takes place in a context of a very poorly managed pandemic, the serious social and economic consequences of which still affect women on the front line," he said. -she denounces.
In songs and to the rhythm of drumbeats, under a tide of purple flags and placards denouncing "patriarchal sexism" and violence against women, the demonstrators expressed their "determination" to continue to fight for their rights and their "ras - the bowl of not being heard ".
"We stop working and consuming"
After "the Poles who dared to stop everything for the right to abortion", the Argentines, the Spanish and the Swiss, "we all stop Monday", launched in turn Suzie Rojtman, of the National Collective for the Rights of Women , to enthusiastic cheers.
"We stop working, working, in every sense of the word (...) and we also stop consuming", she continued, denouncing a "society based on the exploitation of the labor of women yet under -paid and still considered second-class citizens ”.
A dozen homeless women carrying placards decrying the dangers of the streets and rape symbolically wrapped themselves in golden survival blankets, while young Kurdish women stressed that "it is time to defend the free woman in a free society ".
Cardboard signs, where one could read testimonies of rape at all ages, denounced "violence everywhere, justice nowhere".
A large banner paid homage to the "first of chores, underpaid, devalued" and proclaimed: "Enough!".
Other speaking times were devoted to the struggles of women in the world, and in particular to Kurdish and Uyghur women, as well as to denouncing violence against "children who are the objects of predators".