The rape of an Indian student shocks the world and fills the streets with protests; in the UK, women cleaners and caterers take councils to court over patriarchal pay; a New York hotel worker exposes the head of the IMF; women call out Twitter for the proliferation of online rape threats; a 17-year-old Somali woman ignites action against Female Genital Mutilation; millions in China protest against sexual harassment, and in some of the most besieged places on the planet, Kurdish women improvise novel ways of resisting nation states and sexism. Feminism flares all over the world.
Women march against violence in Turkey on International Women's day. Photo: Demotix
