Thousands of people marched in Paris on Monday, International Women's Rights Day.

Slogans, placards and raised fists, they called for an end to discrimination, in particular salary, but also gender-based and sexual violence and the culture of rape.

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"Stop the culture of rape!"

This is one of the main slogans that it was possible to read on the placards of the thousands of demonstrators who marched in Paris on Monday, during the international day of women's rights.

Beyond equal pay, the collective of 37 union movements organizing the event called for demonstrations to "put an end to discrimination and gender-based and sexual violence" and to "refuse (...) to pay the price. of the crisis with our work, our salary, our body ". 

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"We continue to accept rape"

"We continue to accept rape," says Martine, a protester at the head of the Les Rosies collective, who wears a blue jumpsuit and a red ribbon in her hair, symbols of the feminist revolution.

"We accept this freedom over women's bodies. We can be whistled in the street, be called a slut because we have a short dress, at work we can be nicknamed 'my doe' ... But what? law ?"

Especially since the aggressors are not always punished, according to Nora, a 21-year-old student at Sciences-Po who "knows rapists or sexual aggressors who have been changed campus to avoid their exclusion".

And she says that "obviously these have reoffended."

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"There are still a lot of rights that have not been acquired"

A little further in the procession, Lucie, a 22-year-old student, regrets "that we are still demonstrating in 2021 to demand equal rights".

"There are still a lot of rights that are not acquired", adds Marie-Noëlle, 65, retired psychologist and lesbian feminist activist, citing "equal pay, violence against women, sharing stain".

So for things to change, and for the rapes to stop, UNEF, like the other organizations present at this event, calls for "educating our sons, before having to protect our daughters".