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International Women's Day

http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

March 08, 2010

Objective:
IWD is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.

Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of former Soviet bloc). In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

The IWD is also celebrated as the first spring holiday, as in the listed countries the first day of March is considered the first day of the spring season.

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briandrpm

3/08/10 International Women's Day and Millennium Development Goal 3 Perfect Match

by: briandrpm

What the Millennium Development Goal No. 3 Gender Equity is trying to achieve is made manifest in the celebration of International Women's Day. This post is in support of the International Women's Day online event being sponsored by BloggersUnite member BlogCatalog. This is suppose to be my contribution for this day but for some reason the site says that my url was already submitted, a bit confusing. http://anewmillennium.blogspot.com/2010/02/international-womens-day.html

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drjalee52

2/04/10 Women's Rights are as Important as Air

by: drjalee52

We must all move to a level of human understanding where everyone is truly appreciated for the beauty and joy that is found in life. Everyone is of tremendous value and gender is not the barrier that was made for no reason that makes any sense. We need women's rights just like we need air.

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naveed2009

3/09/09 Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights - www.srhmatters.org

by: naveed2009

Marie Stopes Society has commemorated International Women’s Day 2009 by “Free Camp” activity on more than 80 districts of Pakistan by providing free services.

Marie Stopes Society (MSS) is a Social Enterprise working to provide choices in Reproductive Healthcare and helping to alleviate the root cause of many of the socio-economic problems in Pakistan. MSS provides comprehensive reproductive health information and services that include mother & child health and family planning services

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bugsey

3/09/09 Women's Rights includes STOPPING OPRESSION of women anywhere !

by: bugsey

http://www.helium.com/zones/show/2188

It's time that women see women oppression in the name of culture or religion as WRONG!

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mpbabaji

3/08/09 Tolerate ! But dont say a word.

by: mpbabaji

Harassment, sexual violence, mental tension, everything is same. The only change that is visible is that now these things cannot go unnoticed.

Now the statistics do not increase rather the volume of these cries have become really bold and loud. Women are now all set to shed this wrong habit of so called tolerance. She has been told by this religion and male dominated society since ages, "Tolerate! But don't say a word, you will lose your prestige and place; we would not lose anything because

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