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Women Protest Worldwide Photos 4

[Image]A demonstrator sits holding a sign during a protest against bullfighting in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. Peru hosts the oldest bullring in the Americas, the Plaza de Acho, inaugurated in 1766 under the ruling of Viceroy Manuel de Amat y Juniet, where every year bullfighters compete for the renown ‘Escapulario de Oro’ or ‘Golden Scapular’, one of the most important bullfighting trophies worldwide. (Karel Navarro)[Image]
[Image]Iranian opposition members hold an old Iranian flag as they protest against the regime in their country, asking the release of jailed dissidents and union members, in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011.(Burhan Ozbilici)
[Image]An activist supporting the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) stands in front of banners in support of rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila during a protest in New Delhi on November 5, 2011. Sharmila has been on a 10-year hunger strike demanding the Indian government to repeal the AFSPA. Getty
[Image]More than 100 police moved on Occupy Sydney protesters at Martin Place October 23, 2011, resulting in the arrest of 40 people. Damian Baker[Image]
[Image]Occupy Wall Street demonstrator Mimi Ho, right, gestures as she carries her daughter Juniper, 1, after she withdrew her savings from a Wells Fargo Bank as part of the protest in downtown Oakland, Calif. , Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. At left is Kimi Lee, who also withdrew her savings. Saturday is Bank Transfer Day for supporters to take their money out of major banks and put their money into smaller banks. AP
[Image]Students stage a protest in front of the government house in Riga November 4, 2011. Thousands of students staged the protest against education budget cuts the Latvian government is planning for 2012, local media reported. Reuters
[Image]Albanian citizens protest in front of the parliament building to stop the passing of a law that will allow the import of waste into the country, in Tirana November 3, 2011. The Albanian government insists that the controversial bill will only allow the import of a limited list of non-toxic waste for recycling purposes, but environmental activists insist that bill would turn Albania into a backyard recycling bin of Europe?s richer countries. A similar attempt to pass a law that would allow import of waste was thwarted in 2004 due to strong public opposition. Reuters
[Image]University students with their necks painted protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Nov. 3, 2011. Their signs read in Spanish “We have the right to be outraged,” left, and “Excellent education and for all!!” Students are protesting education reforms planned by the government that propose private funding for public institutions. (Fernando Vergara)
[Image]Protesters chant slogans in front of the Greek Parliament during an anti-austerity protest in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 3 2011. Greece’s prime minister abandoned his explosive plan to put a European rescue deal to popular vote and opened emergency talks Thursday with his opponents, demanding their support in parliament to pass the hard-fought agreement into law. (Kostas Tsironis)
[Image]Anti-government protesters pass through their makeshift barricades Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, during a demonstration in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain. Men, women and children waved national flags, chanted against the regime and called for prisoners to be freed. Such barricades are used in restive Shiite areas nationwide to slow riot police jeeps who often arrive to disperse the daily demonstrations. (Hasan Jamali)
[Image]Aileen Mioko Smith, center, executive director of pro-sustainable energy NGO group Green Action, and supporters shout anti-nuclear slogans by a yarn ball made by women in Fukushima as they stage a sit-in demonstration, opposing the government’s nuclear energy policy in front of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (Shuji Kajiyama)
[Image]An exile Tibetan woman tries to immolate herself as others from the community try to stop her, during a protest against China and to honor Tibetans who have immolated themselves since March in a restive Tibetan area of western China, in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Protesters urged G20 leaders to raise the issue of rights violation and crackdown on monasteries in Tibet. (Niranjan Shrestha)
[Image]Occupy Chicago protesters march in downtown Chicago, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Protesters are gathering in Chicago’s financial district to march in solidarity with other anti-Wall Street protesters nationwide for an Iraq War veteran who was injured in clashes between protesters and police in California. (Nam Y. Huh)
[Image]An Occupy Oakland protester wears makeup in observance of the traditional Mexican holiday “Day of the Dead,” Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland’s citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action called by Occupy protesters a day after police forcibly removed their City Hall encampment last week, seeks to shut down the Port of Oakland. (Ben Margot)
[Image]A woman holds her child during a protest in Ciudad Juarez November 1, 2011. Police arrested around 25 protesters as they were trying to put up crosses in a public area in representation of the thousands of victims of the drug war. Reuters
[Image]In this photograph taken by AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Protestors from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation deliver a bag full of petitions requesting lower AIDS drug pricing to Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (Charles Sykes)
[Image]An anti-G20 demonstrator poses on a fake beach during a photobooth session as she takes part in a protest against globalisation in Nice, southeastern France, November 2, 2011. G20 leaders will gather in Cannes for the final summit of France’s presidency on November 3 and 4. Reuters
[Image]A woman involved in the clean-up operation after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster shouts slogans during a protest in front of riot police at Cabinet in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. The veterans were demanding the right to keep the social benefits given to them after the clean-up. (Efrem Lukatsky)
[Image]Indian police officers detain Members of the Tibetan Youth Congress during a protest, on the eve of G20 summit in France , outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on November 2, 2011. The protesters flew Tibetan flags,and burned Chinese flags to express their opposition to China’s policies in Tibet, and to call for support for their movement from leaders of the G20. Getty
[Image]Protester Alexis Marvel, of Boston, front, holds an American flag and shouts slogans while joining with members of the Occupy Boston movement, students from area colleges, and union workers as they march through downtown Boston, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. The march was held to protest the nations growing student debt burden. AP
[Image]Demonstrators shout slogans in front of riot police on November 2, 2011 during a protest as the Ukrainian cabinet was meeting in Kiev. Ukrainian veterans of the clean-up from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are demonstrating against planned benefit cuts. In September, lawmakers gave initial approval to a bill cutting back benefits paid to those who helped clean up the April 1986 nuclear disaster and those who still live on the affected lands. Getty
[Image]Tibetan nationals demonstrate to protest against China’s President Hu Jintao visit to France for Cannes’ G20 meeting, on November 2, 2011 in Paris. Getty
[Image]Young unemployed graduates protest against unemployment and the cost of living, in front of the Moroccan Parliament in Rabat November 2, 2011. Reuters
[Image]Anti-Wall Street protesters demonstrate in front of a closed bank in Oakland, California, November 2, 2011. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Oakland at the start of what they called a general strike to protest economic conditions and police brutality in the city. Reuters
[Image]Members of the New York City chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and dozens of other uniformed veterans known as ‘Veterans of the 99%’ march from Vietnam Veterans Plaza to Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street movement is centered on November 2, 2011 in New York City. The veterans groups, which feature current and former members of the United States military, marched in support of Occupy Wall Street and to pay homage to Scott Olsen, a former Marine and Iraq War vet who sustained a skull fracture after he was injured by police at an Occupy Oakland protest. Getty
[Image]A demonstrator tries to cross a police line during a protest against the Islamist Ennahda movement in Tunis November 2, 2011. The moderate Islamist party Ennahda, which advocates democracy and pledges not to impose religious bans on the secularist minority here, won 40 percent of the vote in the October 23 election for a constituent assembly. Reuters
[Image]A woman holds a placard on November 1, 2011 during a demonstration in the French city of Nice, two days ahead of the G20 summit to be held in Cannes on November 3 and 4. Thousands of anti-capitalists are to march through the streets of Nice today to protest corporate greed ahead of the G20 summit, echoing protests worldwide. The placard reads : ‘Life not money’. Getty
[Image]In this Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 file photo, a female protestor, center, flashes the victory sign during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Women are fighting to keep a voice for their rights sounding out amid the tumult of Yemen’s landmark revolt. The main goal of the protests by millions around the country, day in and day out since February, is the ouster of President Saleh.