2010 march at Rimouski, Canada
The **Marche mondiale des Femmes** or **World March of Women** is an international and feminist action movement that brings together common groups and organizations which works to remove poverty and violence against women. As per 2006 data, The movement has got members and participation from 6,000 groups. The members and groups are from 161 different countries across the world.

The World March of Women (MMF) is an independent, multi-cultural, multi-ethnical and pluralist movement. The group was launched by Quebec Women's Federation which organizes the "World March of Women against Poverty and Violence Against Women."

Current status
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The World March of Women has now turned into a platform of groups which draft proposals and gives demands. Those who speak for the group during the global march participate in various social forums or other initiatives of the alter-globalization movement.

History
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The Marche mondiale des Femmes was launched in 2000. It was launched by the Fédération des femmes du Québec, a feminist group based in Quebec, Canada. It was launched after the success of the Bread and Roses March which took place in 1995 in Quebec. In that March, around 850 women marched for ten days, to get their nine economic demands. The end of the march saw around 15,000 people coming together. The idea of starting a World March of Women to mark the beginning of the 21st century began to come up in the imaginations of Quebec activists and individuals who speaks or acts on behalf of an organization from a number of countries who had come to join in that large rallying of women.

Planning for the *Marche mondiale des Femmes* soon began in 1997, and in October 1998, a meeting was held in Montreal, Canada, in which 140 women representing 65 countries took part. They agreed to two main themes for the march: the elimination *(the complete removal)* of world poverty and the stopping of violence towards women. The March took place in year 2000.

March
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The March of the group as scheduled was started on 8 March 2000 on the International Women's Day and ended on 17 October 2000 on the International Day for the Eradication *(removal)* of Poverty. In October, several supporting collective action by people in favor of a cause took place in support for the March including at Brussels, Bombay, Quebec, etc. On October 17, after the final march in the city with participants, a group of persons who were chosen to represent the group in New York handed UN representatives the signatures of an international formal written request as well as a set of proposals to be implemented to help remove the problems of poverty and violence. One of the many demands was that the United States recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and its provisions according to which, in particular, rape and sexual assault constitute war crimes and crimes against Humanity.

The group in its last statement said:

> *Through this global charter of women for humanity and through the actions to come, we reaffirm that another world is possible, a world full of hope, of life, where life is good and we declare our love to this world, its diversity and its beauty.*
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Aftermath
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World March of Women WSF2015 Tunis.
The group continued their work after the first March.

* Different anniversaries or reminders of the first march started happening on March 8 of every year as well as on during international women's rights days.
* The 2005 world march: leaving São Paulo, Brazil on March 8, the march group arrived on October 17, 2005 in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. Hundreds of women from 31 countries around the world participated in it.
* Participation in global social forums: 2005, 2006,... 2015 and so on.

Related pages
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* Women's March on Versailles
* 2017 Women's March

Other websites
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* Goals of the World March of Women, Official website.