Celebrated annually on March 8, International Women’s Day serves as a day to raise awareness and advocate for women’s rights and often highlights themes like empowerment.

Hundreds of people turned out Sunday across the Bay Area to mark International Women’s Day, with protesters in Oakland and San Jose using the holiday as a conduit to push for women’s rights — and against recent U.S. military actions abroad and the Trump administration’s deportation campaign at home.

A few hundred protesters marched to Trump Tower Sunday as part of nationwide Women’s March events in honor of International Women’s Day, celebrated March 8.

In honor of International Women’s Day on Sunday, hundreds of protesters caravanned nearly 50 miles from Albuquerque to Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch, demanding justice and accountability for survivors of gender-based and sexual violence.

As Tobin Heath was honored by the USWNT and International Women's Day arrives, Emma Hayes and her group of players are looking both backward and forward to further the game.

Performance follows the Mechael sisters’ recent appointment as Ambassadors for Peace by the Universal Peace Federation

March 8 is International Women's Day — a date picked in honor of a remarkable Russian protest. During World War I, women in Russia went on strike. They demanded "bread and peace." Among the results of their four-day protest: the Czar abdicated and women gained the right to vote.