March 8, 2011
Plays:
About a thousand women turned out to march on International Women's Day Tuesday in Cairo to demand "fair and equal opportunity for all Egyptian citizens -- beyond gender, religion or class." The activists in Egypt, who had called for a "Million Woman March," were disappointed when some men chanting anti-feminist slogans caused the rally to degenerate into a shouting match.
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