Rappler compiles a list of protests around the world during this pandemic, showing democracy lives on despite the health crisis.
PROTECT WOMEN. Women wearing face masks hold signs and raise their fists in Ankara, Turkey, on August 5, 2020, during a demonstration to demand that government not withdraw from the Istanbul Convention.Crowds of women and feminist supporters were seen in face masks and purple placards protesting violence against women in Turkey. Rights groupreported that at least 474 women were murdered by men in 2019, and femicides were increasing every year.
Turkey ratified a 2011 Council of Europe accord called the Istanbul Convention that aimed to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence. People have marched to call on the government to better implement the accord.DEMANDS. Student Union of Thailand spokesperson Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul reads a list of demands during a pro-democracy rally at Thammasat University in Pathum Thani, north of Bangkok on August 10, 2020.
The activists are also calling for the abolition of the kingdom’s draconian royal defamation law, which protects the powerful and wealthy King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
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