Crowds at the event, including representatives from Women’s Aid, Global Women’s Strike, Youth Action and Surviving Economic Abuse, also cheered calls by a number of speakers to end the conflict in Iran. The event started at Writer’s Square before marching along Royal Avenue to City Hall, with people holding aloft banners. Crowds gather in front of Belfast City Hall for an International Women’s Day rally (Rebecca Black/PA)Ms Robinson told those gathered: “We have an administration in the United States which is flooding the atmosphere with lies, not to be believed, but to confuse, to confuse that there is no truth. People attended an International Women’s Day rally in Belfast (Rebecca Black/PA)She condemned the “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in Northern Ireland, Ireland and across the globe, and spending on wars at the same time as cuts on spending in international aid. Iranian human rights activist Azadeh Sobout addressed the rally (Rebecca Black/PA)Ms Sobout called for democracy for her country, describing it as being “under bombardment”.

Source: The Herald March 07, 2026 15:36 UTC