Hundreds of demonstrations around the world are being planned for Jan. 21 in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington, which is expected to be the largest inauguration-related demonstration in United States history.

The March Route in Washington

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Organizers have estimated that 200,000 people could participate in the Washington rally, which will begin at 10 a.m. near the southeast corner of the National Mall. The march is scheduled to start at 1:15 p.m. and will proceed toward the White House.

Participants are traveling to Washington from all over the country, with many arriving by bus. Many more are expected to participate in hundreds of sister marches throughout the United States.

Women’s Marches Around the Nation

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March organizers have said the event’s primary focus is to promote equal rights for women and to defend marginalized groups. “The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world, that women's rights are human rights,” the group’s website says.

More than 200 organizations have signed on as partners for the march, including Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, the National Organization for Women and Human Rights Watch. Cher, Katy Perry and Amy Schumer are among the celebrities who have said they will attend.

Women’s Marches Around the World

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Participants outside the United States say they are marching in solidarity with American women and standing up for the rights of women in their own countries.

“The recent elections in the United States have shown how real the threat is to our collective rights and liberties,” says the Facebook event page for the Women’s March on Nairobi. The page for the London event, which 23,000 Facebook users have said they will attend, says, “we will march...for the protection of our fundamental rights and for the safeguarding of freedoms threatened by recent political events.”

Led by Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson (center, on horseback), suffragists marched on Pennsylvania Avenue on March 3, 1913, the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. Library of Congress

A previous women’s movement found success in an inauguration-related demonstration. The Women’s Suffrage Parade of 1913, in which an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 suffragists marched on Pennsylvania Avenue the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, drew attention to the women’s suffrage movement as thousands of spectators in Washington for the inauguration witnessed the procession.

Historians consider the parade a major milestone for the movement to win women the right to vote. It is set to be depicted on the back of a redesigned $10 bill in 2020.</s>Participants turn out by the hundreds for the women's march in front of the Pantheon in Rome, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Rallies or marches were scheduled to take place in many cities around the world the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as new President of the United States. (Maurizio Brambatti/ANSA via AP)</s>On President Donald Trump's first day in office, women around the U.S. and around the world staged marches in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington.See photos from the marches on Saturday in the gallery above.</s>From Antarctica to the Netherlands, global marches and protests for women's right are held around the world in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., as well as the 600 "sister marches" held across the United States for the Women's March on Washington. See the photos.</s>Women’s Marches were held in cities across the world on Jan. 21, the day after President Trump’s inauguration.</s>Women (and men) didn’t just march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday — they marched worldwide. While more than half a million people turned out in the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington, hundreds of thousands of others participated in 650 other “sister marches” across the 50 states and in select cities around the world. Globally, people turned out in larger numbers than anticipated, with the number of marchers in D.C. far surpassing the tally of those who attended the presidential inauguration. Estimates at the Mall placed the total attendees at 500,000 marchers; so many people they almost didn’t get the chance to formally march. Similar numbers were reported in New York and Los Angeles, with large amounts of people turning out in cities such as Boston, Denver, and London.



As of Saturday evening, an estimated 4,625,000 people attended marches in cities as close as New York and as far away as Antarctica.

Click ahead to see photos from the marches around the globe.</s>Celebrities are joining the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators at Women's Marches around the globe today.

For those who couldn't physically attend, many have shared their sentiments of solidarity on social media.

The Women's March on Washington, along with sister marches on six different continents, are focused on promoting equal rights for women and minorities.

The demonstrations, organized in part to protest the agenda of President Donald Trump, are being held just one day after he was sworn into office.

From Tony Bennett to Katy Perry, here are the celebs contributing to the cause:</s>Women's Marches Take Place Around The Globe After Inauguration

Around the world, women have been marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington and the sister marches in the U.S. NPR's Frank Langfitt gives the latest from London.</s>More than a million people are estimated to have participated in women's marches across the world on Saturday.

Here is a running total of the attendance at the marches with turn-out estimates:

New York City: More than 200,000

Los Angeles: 100,000 were expected to join the march.

Boston: 100,000, according to the Boston Globe.

Denver: 100,000, according to the Denver Post.

London: 100,000, according to The Independent.

Seattle: 50,000 were expected to attend, according to KIRO 7.

New Zealand: Marches took place in four cities with 2,000 people taking demonstrating, Reuters reported.</s>This weekend, hundreds of thousands of supporters of women’s rights will gather in the nation’s capital to try to ensure that their voices are heard and their interests considered by the Trump administration. But hundreds of smaller events are planned on the statewide level as well.

As NewsOk reports, Oklahomans are expected to rally Saturday in Oklahoma City. About the rally, Lindsey Kanaly, an Oklahoma City attorney, said, “We can no longer complain on Facebook, and here is a chance to actually do something.”

In Texas, women’s marches are planned across the state, including one in Amarillo.

Other marches are planned for Dallas and Austin. Nearly a million people are expected to participate in hundreds of marches planned for all over the world.

The organizers of these events say they are not protests, but are instead a way to “promote women’s equality and defend other marginalized groups.”
Marches occur across the U.S. and throughout the world, with 408 reported marches in the U.S. and 168 marches reported in other countries.