Did you / do you celebrate International Women's Day? The explanation of this is based on the UN's web site:
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.
Ref. https://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm
Irish Activist Deirdre McAliskey on International Women's Day & Role of Women in Irish Peace Process
Saturday is International Women's Day, held on March 8th every year since 1975. Origins date back to the early twentieth century. On February 28, 1909, the Socialist Party of America held the first National Women's Day in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike here in New York. On Saturday, women are expected to lead gatherings and demonstrations worldwide. Today, we speak with Irish activist Deirdre McAliskey.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/7/irish...irdre_mcaliskey
Fmr. Irish President Mary Robinson Joins Women Leaders at International Women's Conference in Liberia
As we mark International Women's Day, we speak with world-renowned human rights lawyer and advocate, Mary Robinson. She is the former president of Ireland, the first woman ever to hold the office. She is also the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Robinson speaks about the international women's conference hosted in Liberia by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first female president; being chosen as one of Nelson Mandela's "Elders"; and the ongoing struggle for women's rights from Afghanistan to Iraq to Iran. Ref. Source 3
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International Women's Day Marked Around the World
Thousands of events are being held around the world to celebrate International Women's Day, an idea that was launched 100 years ago when a group of women from seventeen countries gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark to champion the rights of women. Activists across the globe are drawing attention to a variety of concerns, including discriminatory laws, the high rate of pregnancy-related deaths in many parts of the world, the skewed sex ratio in China and India, the disproportionately high number of women who are killed and victimized by wars, the comparatively heavier burden of poverty on women, and the continuing disparity between men and women in terms of the quality of available employment and wages received. Ref. Source 4
International Women's Day Sweeps the World;
Women across the world are mobilizing to mark International Women's Day highlighting the struggle for working women's rights with its almost 100 years of history firmly planted in the fight for social justice, equality, labor rights, socialism and against war. Ref. Source 2y.