Million Women Rise in London March

Several thousand women marched through London today, taking over the streets as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. London, UK. 06/03/2010

The march, on the Saturday nearest to International Women's Day - March 8th - is organised by a coalition of individual women and representatives from the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, and it aims to "celebrate and honour women’s activism, courage and achievements and continued struggle against global male violence in all its forms."

Million Women Rise is a part of a wider international movement to end violence against women, and the flyer handed out on the march presented the reality of violence for women in the UK and internationally. In this country almost 1 in 4 women have experience some form of sexual assault and on average two women are murdered each week by a partner or former partner. A third of all teenage girls who are in relationships suffer unwanted sexual acts and one in four are the subject of actual physical violence.

Trafficking is a large-scale global industry, with two million girls between the ages of 5 and fifteen being sold into sex slavery each year. Lack of health provision is also a major problem; one woman dies in pregnancy for every minute of the year, and most of these deaths are preventable.

Several thousand women marched through London today, taking over the streets as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. London, UK. 06/03/2010

The march, on the Saturday nearest to International Women's Day - March 8th - is organised by a coalition of individual women and representatives from the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, and it aims to "celebrate and honour women’s activism, courage and achievements and continued struggle against global male violence in all its forms."

Million Women Rise is a part of a wider international movement to end violence against women, and the flyer handed out on the march presented the reality of violence for women in the UK and internationally. In this country almost 1 in 4 women have experience some form of sexual assault and on average two women are murdered each week by a partner or former partner. A third of all teenage girls who are in relationships suffer unwanted sexual acts and one in four are the subject of actual physical violence.

Trafficking is a large-scale global industry, with two million girls between the ages of 5 and fifteen being sold into sex slavery each year. Lack of health provision is also a major problem; one woman dies in pregnancy for every minute of the year, and most of these deaths are preventable.

Several thousand women marched through London today, taking over the streets as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. London, UK. 06/03/2010

The march, on the Saturday nearest to International Women's Day - March 8th - is organised by a coalition of individual women and representatives from the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, and it aims to "celebrate and honour women’s activism, courage and achievements and continued struggle against global male violence in all its forms."

Million Women Rise is a part of a wider international movement to end violence against women, and the flyer handed out on the march presented the reality of violence for women in the UK and internationally. In this country almost 1 in 4 women have experience some form of sexual assault and on average two women are murdered each week by a partner or former partner. A third of all teenage girls who are in relationships suffer unwanted sexual acts and one in four are the subject of actual physical violence.

Trafficking is a large-scale global industry, with two million girls between the ages of 5 and fifteen being sold into sex slavery each year. Lack of health provision is also a major problem; one woman dies in pregnancy for every minute of the year, and most of these deaths are preventable.

Several thousand women marched through London today, taking over the streets as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. London, UK. 06/03/2010

The march, on the Saturday nearest to International Women's Day - March 8th - is organised by a coalition of individual women and representatives from the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, and it aims to "celebrate and honour women’s activism, courage and achievements and continued struggle against global male violence in all its forms."

Million Women Rise is a part of a wider international movement to end violence against women, and the flyer handed out on the march presented the reality of violence for women in the UK and internationally. In this country almost 1 in 4 women have experience some form of sexual assault and on average two women are murdered each week by a partner or former partner. A third of all teenage girls who are in relationships suffer unwanted sexual acts and one in four are the subject of actual physical violence.

Trafficking is a large-scale global industry, with two million girls between the ages of 5 and fifteen being sold into sex slavery each year. Lack of health provision is also a major problem; one woman dies in pregnancy for every minute of the year, and most of these deaths are preventable.

Several thousand women marched through London today, taking over the streets as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. London, UK. 06/03/2010

The march, on the Saturday nearest to International Women's Day - March 8th - is organised by a coalition of individual women and representatives from the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, and it aims to "celebrate and honour women’s activism, courage and achievements and continued struggle against global male violence in all its forms."

Million Women Rise is a part of a wider international movement to end violence against women, and the flyer handed out on the march presented the reality of violence for women in the UK and internationally. In this country almost 1 in 4 women have experience some form of sexual assault and on average two women are murdered each week by a partner or former partner. A third of all teenage girls who are in relationships suffer unwanted sexual acts and one in four are the subject of actual physical violence.

Trafficking is a large-scale global industry, with two million girls between the ages of 5 and fifteen being sold into sex slavery each year. Lack of health provision is also a major problem; one woman dies in pregnancy for every minute of the year, and most of these deaths are preventable.

Several thousand women marched through London today, taking over the streets as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. London, UK. 06/03/2010

The march, on the Saturday nearest to International Women's Day - March 8th - is organised by a coalition of individual women and representatives from the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, and it aims to "celebrate and honour women’s activism, courage and achievements and continued struggle against global male violence in all its forms."

Million Women Rise is a part of a wider international movement to end violence against women, and the flyer handed out on the march presented the reality of violence for women in the UK and internationally. In this country almost 1 in 4 women have experience some form of sexual assault and on average two women are murdered each week by a partner or former partner. A third of all teenage girls who are in relationships suffer unwanted sexual acts and one in four are the subject of actual physical violence.

Trafficking is a large-scale global industry, with two million girls between the ages of 5 and fifteen being sold into sex slavery each year. Lack of health provision is also a major problem; one woman dies in pregnancy for every minute of the year, and most of these deaths are preventable.

Several thousand women marched through London today, taking over the streets as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. London, UK. 06/03/2010

The march, on the Saturday nearest to International Women's Day - March 8th - is organised by a coalition of individual women and representatives from the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, and it aims to "celebrate and honour women’s activism, courage and achievements and continued struggle against global male violence in all its forms."

Million Women Rise is a part of a wider international movement to end violence against women, and the flyer handed out on the march presented the reality of violence for women in the UK and internationally. In this country almost 1 in 4 women have experience some form of sexual assault and on average two women are murdered each week by a partner or former partner. A third of all teenage girls who are in relationships suffer unwanted sexual acts and one in four are the subject of actual physical violence.

Trafficking is a large-scale global industry, with two million girls between the ages of 5 and fifteen being sold into sex slavery each year. Lack of health provision is also a major problem; one woman dies in pregnancy for every minute of the year, and most of these deaths are preventable.

Several thousand women marched through London today, taking over the streets as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. London, UK. 06/03/2010

The march, on the Saturday nearest to International Women's Day - March 8th - is organised by a coalition of individual women and representatives from the Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector, and it aims to "celebrate and honour women’s activism, courage and achievements and continued struggle against global male violence in all its forms."

Million Women Rise is a part of a wider international movement to end violence against women, and the flyer handed out on the march presented the reality of violence for women in the UK and internationally. In this country almost 1 in 4 women have experience some form of sexual assault and on average two women are murdered each week by a partner or former partner. A third of all teenage girls who are in relationships suffer unwanted sexual acts and one in four are the subject of actual physical violence.

Trafficking is a large-scale global industry, with two million girls between the ages of 5 and fifteen being sold into sex slavery each year. Lack of health provision is also a major problem; one woman dies in pregnancy for every minute of the year, and most of these deaths are preventable.