International Women's Day: Hear me roar

Published March 9, 2013
A man holds a cross painted red to represent blood during a demonstration to demand justice for women who are the victims of violence, in Mexico City March 8, 2013. Activists and relatives of women who were either murdered or have disappeared in the Chihuahua state and all over the country, were calling for a stop to gender killings as International Women's Day marks its 102th anniversary.?Photo by Reuters
A man holds a cross painted red to represent blood during a demonstration to demand justice for women who are the victims of violence, in Mexico City March 8, 2013. Activists and relatives of women who were either murdered or have disappeared in the Chihuahua state and all over the country, were calling for a stop to gender killings as International Women's Day marks its 102th anniversary.?Photo by Reuters

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