{"id":31367,"date":"2018-03-08T02:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/08\/international-womens-day-2018-protests-across-the-world-as-women-press-for-progress-live\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T02:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T01:55:25","slug":"international-womens-day-2018-protests-across-the-world-as-women-press-for-progress-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=31367","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#039;s Day 2018: protests across the world as women press for progress \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the year of #MeToo and Time\u2019s Up, 8 March keeps the spotlight on women calling for change. Follow the day\u2019s global action liveTell us what you are doing on International Women\u2019s DayJulia Gillard: We can\u2019t own girls. We owe themTheresa May: Our new domestic violence bill will outlaw economic and physical abuse 1.55am GMT Elena del Estal has documented the lives of trafficked women in India, where hundreds of thousands of women and girls are forced into sexual and domestic slavery:Saeeda holds her youngest daughter as she talks about how she was brought to Haryana 20 years ago with her sister.\u201cI only know that I arrived in Haryana when I was 11,\u201d she says. \u201cI was brought here with my sister but I haven\u2019t seen her since we arrived.\u201d Related: &#8216;I was bought for 50,000 rupees&#8217;: India&#8217;s trafficked brides \u2013 in pictures 1.43am GMT In the Australian outback town of Tennant Creek, Aboriginal women and girls have marched on IWD to call for an end to alcohol-fuelled violence.Tennant Creek has been in trauma in recent weeks following the alleged sexual assault of a two-year-old girl. Family and community members have accused the Northern Territory government of ignoring their long-running pleas for help combatting high rates of alcohol and drug abuse, and of family and sexual violence.Tennant Creek women and girls have used IWD to call for an end to alcohol fuelled violence in the NT town @abcnewsNT @abcnews pic.twitter.com\/yGHvGUGzGKThe majority of our population [in Tennant Creek] is Aboriginal and they are the most vulnerable group of people in the country.It\u2019s tough for people who live out bush and in regional towns. You\u2019ve got to look out for different ways to provide service to look after families than in a centre like Darwin or Sydney \u2026 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2018\/mar\/08\/international-womens-day-2018-live-protests-press-for-progress-live\" target=\"_blank\">International Women&#039;s Day 2018: protests across the world as women press for progress \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the year of #MeToo and Time\u2019s Up, 8 March keeps the spotlight on women calling for change. Follow the day\u2019s global action liveTell us what you are doing on International Women\u2019s DayJulia Gillard: We can\u2019t own girls. We owe themTheresa May: Our new domestic violence bill will outlaw economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}