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		</div><p>Thousands of women brought central London to a standstill to protest over violence against women and girls, days after International Women&#8217;s Day.</p>
<p>Gathering for the 10th annual Million Women Rise march, women and young girls marched through Oxford Circus chanting &#8220;Whatever I wear, wherever I go, yes means yes and no means no&#8221;.</p>
<p>Making their way to Trafalgar Square, the protesters, including anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaigners, called for &#8220;safe streets&#8221; and &#8220;no excuse for violent men&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ann Samuel, a student from London who attended the march said: &#8220;It&#8217;s about awareness and women raising their voices and making themselves heard.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think more needs to be done against domestic abuse, domestic violence for women. They say when one woman stands up, they stand up for all women.</p>
<p>&#8220;Services are being cut and we can&#8217;t let that happen. It affects everyone one way or another so being here makes a difference.&#8221;</p>
<p>Celebrating its 10th year, the march was formed to campaign against the &#8220;global pandemic&#8221; of male violence against women.</p>
<p>The protest follows International Women&#8217;s Day and comes weeks after the Women&#8217;s March, which drew millions to the streets worldwide.</p>
<p>Founder of the march Sabrina Qureshi praised the &#8220;electric&#8221; event. She said the march was necessary to &#8220;change society&#8221;, particularly as the movement was &#8220;really underfunded&#8221;.</p>
<p>The 44-year-old counsellor said: &#8220;A lot of us have worked in domestic violence and sexual violence. It got to a point where I was getting paid to give a woman space, but that space afterwards &#8211; her healing &#8211; wasn&#8217;t being supported by society or the government, because male violence is so normalised.</p>
<p>&#8220;So we had to do something more, not just the therapy. We have to change society, hearts and minds.&#8221;<br />
Timed to coincide with International Women&#8217;s Day, Ms Qureshi believes the march has come a long way on its 10th anniversary.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;It started off because on International Women&#8217;s Day 10 years ago, there wan&#8217;t much happening. It wan&#8217;t really known and we felt that we had to make a critical mass.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe that we don&#8217;t need (celebrities). We&#8217;ve got women here that represent all walks of life, from all over England, from Bolivia, from Eritrea. We&#8217;ve got variety. I believe that in our creativity and our self-organising, we will end domestic violence.&#8221;</p>
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