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Women Protest World Poverty and Mistreatment of Women

HeadlineOct 16, 2000

Women from around the world marched and shouted “Shame” at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund buildings yesterday in a protest against world poverty and the mistreatment of women. Several thousand marchers from Africa, Asia and the Americas chanted, in a variety of languages, their support for equal rights for women and their opposition to domestic violence.

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