Today, woman around the world are celebrating International Women's Day. U.N. agencies are calling for greater efforts to ensure gender equality and end hunger and poverty.
In Pictures: International Women's Day
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Participants dance during an International Women's Day rally in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, March 8, 2017.
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Women wear purple ribbons on their faces during the "Todas en Silencio" demonstration to mark the U.N.-designated International Women's Day, in front of La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2017.
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Magda Malek is the first Egyptian female pilot to fly EgyptAir's biggest jet airliner, the Boeing 777-333, March 8, 2017.
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Indian ragpicker women rest after searching for recyclable material at a garbage dumping site on International Women's Day in Gauhati, March 8, 2017.