National March for Women's Lives, Washington, D.C.

On April 25, 2004, over a million women and men from across the United States and 59 countries worldwide marched on Washington to demonstrate their overwhelming support for a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body and to access comprehensive reproductive health care. The International Women’s Health Coalition and 1,000 other groups from around the country, joined by friends from overseas, delivered their message loud and clear: sexual and reproductive rights are human rights! Browse our photo gallery below:

 IWHC's delegation was over one hundred strong.

IWHC colleague Ngozi Iwere of the Campaign Against
Unwanted Pregnancy and the Community Life Project in
Nigeria marches for health, dignity, and justice.

IWHC staff relaxing on the Mall.

IWHC's delegation in the thick of the march.

Advocates for women from 59 countries gathered in
Lafayette Park the evening before the march to protest
the Global Gag Rule, a Bush administration policy that
undermines civil society participation and limits women's
access to reproductive health care worldwide. Click here 
for more information about the Global Gag Rule.