Women Protest Worldwide Photos 4

A demonstrator sits holding a sign during a protest against bullfighting in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011. Peru hosts the oldest bullring in the Americas, the Plaza de Acho, inaugurated in 1766 under the ruling of Viceroy Manuel de Amat y Juniet, where every year bullfighters compete for the renown 'Escapulario de Oro' or 'Golden Scapular', one of the most important bullfighting trophies worldwide. (Karel Navarro)

Iranian opposition members hold an old Iranian flag as they protest against the regime in their country, asking the release of jailed dissidents and union members, in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011.(Burhan Ozbilici)

An activist supporting the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) stands in front of banners in support of rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila during a protest in New Delhi on November 5, 2011. Sharmila has been on a 10-year hunger strike demanding the Indian government to repeal the AFSPA. Getty

More than 100 police moved on Occupy Sydney protesters at Martin Place October 23, 2011, resulting in the arrest of 40 people. Damian Baker

Occupy Wall Street demonstrator Mimi Ho, right, gestures as she carries her daughter Juniper, 1, after she withdrew her savings from a Wells Fargo Bank as part of the protest in downtown Oakland, Calif. , Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. At left is Kimi Lee, who also withdrew her savings. Saturday is Bank Transfer Day for supporters to take their money out of major banks and put their money into smaller banks. AP

Students stage a protest in front of the government house in Riga November 4, 2011. Thousands of students staged the protest against education budget cuts the Latvian government is planning for 2012, local media reported. Reuters

Albanian citizens protest in front of the parliament building to stop the passing of a law that will allow the import of waste into the country, in Tirana November 3, 2011. The Albanian government insists that the controversial bill will only allow the import of a limited list of non-toxic waste for recycling purposes, but environmental activists insist that bill would turn Albania into a backyard recycling bin of Europe?s richer countries. A similar attempt to pass a law that would allow import of waste was thwarted in 2004 due to strong public opposition. Reuters

University students with their necks painted protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Nov. 3, 2011. Their signs read in Spanish "We have the right to be outraged," left, and "Excellent education and for all!!" Students are protesting education reforms planned by the government that propose private funding for public institutions. (Fernando Vergara)

Protesters chant slogans in front of the Greek Parliament during an anti-austerity protest in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 3 2011. Greece's prime minister abandoned his explosive plan to put a European rescue deal to popular vote and opened emergency talks Thursday with his opponents, demanding their support in parliament to pass the hard-fought agreement into law. (Kostas Tsironis)

Anti-government protesters pass through their makeshift barricades Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, during a demonstration in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain. Men, women and children waved national flags, chanted against the regime and called for prisoners to be freed. Such barricades are used in restive Shiite areas nationwide to slow riot police jeeps who often arrive to disperse the daily demonstrations. (Hasan Jamali)

Aileen Mioko Smith, center, executive director of pro-sustainable energy NGO group Green Action, and supporters shout anti-nuclear slogans by a yarn ball made by women in Fukushima as they stage a sit-in demonstration, opposing the government's nuclear energy policy in front of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (Shuji Kajiyama)

An exile Tibetan woman tries to immolate herself as others from the community try to stop her, during a protest against China and to honor Tibetans who have immolated themselves since March in a restive Tibetan area of western China, in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Protesters urged G20 leaders to raise the issue of rights violation and crackdown on monasteries in Tibet. (Niranjan Shrestha)

Occupy Chicago protesters march in downtown Chicago, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Protesters are gathering in Chicago's financial district to march in solidarity with other anti-Wall Street protesters nationwide for an Iraq War veteran who was injured in clashes between protesters and police in California. (Nam Y. Huh)

An Occupy Oakland protester wears makeup in observance of the traditional Mexican holiday "Day of the Dead," Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland's citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action called by Occupy protesters a day after police forcibly removed their City Hall encampment last week, seeks to shut down the Port of Oakland. (Ben Margot)

A woman holds her child during a protest in Ciudad Juarez November 1, 2011. Police arrested around 25 protesters as they were trying to put up crosses in a public area in representation of the thousands of victims of the drug war. Reuters

In this photograph taken by AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Protestors from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation deliver a bag full of petitions requesting lower AIDS drug pricing to Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (Charles Sykes)