More than 30,000 rural women have taken part in a march demanding sustainable development, agrarian reform and an end to gender violence and inequality in Brazil.
The Brasilia police department says an estimated 35,000 women that participated in the three-hour long "Marcha das Margaridas" named after Margarida Maria Alves. The human rights activist and union leader was killed in 1983 by a hired gunman in the northeastern state of Paraiba.
The women marched from the city's Mane Garrincha stadium to a large grassy area in front of Congress then and back to the stadium, where President Dilma Rousseff was expected to address them.
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