Reuters, WASHINGTONHundreds of thousands of women filled the streets of major US cities to lead an unprecedented wave of international protests against US President Donald Trump, mocking and denouncing the new US leader the day after his inauguration. Women activists, outraged by Trump’s campaign rhetoric and behavior they found to be especially misogynistic, on Saturday spearheaded scores of marches in the US and sympathy rallies around the world. While women constituted the bulk of the demonstrators, many were accompanied by husbands, boyfriends and children. About 400,000 marchers assembled in New York City, according to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, though organizers put the number there at 600,000. The protests, mostly peaceful, illustrated the depth of division in a country still reeling from the bitterly fought election campaign.

Source: Taipei Times January 22, 2017 16:05 UTC