International Women’s Day, Malaga, 2024.Credit: Migue A Madrigal – Flickr.
International Women’s Day, commemorated on March 8, as with previous years, there will be a march of solidarity through the centre of Malaga city under the banner ‘Our rights endangered – we respond’.
On March 8, 2024, the Police counted around 15,000 attendees at the feminist march through the centre. With a similar route , through the central streets of the capital. Then, the march was in the afternoon. Banners, flags and songs dominated from the beginning of the march until the end.
One group of demonstrators marched dressed in white clothes with their faces covered by white masks in memory of the women murdered in the previous year.
On Saturday, March 8 2025, the demonstration will take place beginning in the Plaza de la Merced from 12am. Look out for the Soroptimists’ banner, a favourite of ours at Euro Weekly News. The march will then move on through the city centre to the Plaza de la Constitución.
The itinerary runs along Calle Alcazabilla, Calle Císter, Calle Molina Larios, Plaza de la Marina, Calle Larios until it ends in the Plaza de la Constitución, where a manifesto will be read out to the crowd.
If the weather is too inclement, there may be other events closer to home. In Las Lagunas, Mijas, for example, there is a Women’s Day event at 12pm in the Teatro Manuel España.
