International Women's Day Comments
Women's Rights are as Important as Air
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.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights - www.srhmatters.org
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.
MSS has launched a bilingual (English and Urdu) interactive website (www.srhmatters.org) for creating awareness about the sexual and reproductive health rights amongst the youth and adult population. The SRHMatters.org will also provide FREE online councilor advice and professional advice by a doctor especially on sexual and reproductive health issues. Another initiative of MSS is a Toll Free Service helpline (0800 22333) all over the country on SRH issues. Anyone with access to a telephone anywhere within Pakistan can call up the MSS toll free number for counseling and referrals.
We would appreciate your comments and suggestions to make the SRHMatters.org more informative to the viewers.
Women's Rights includes STOPPING OPRESSION of women anywhere !
www.helium.com/zones/show/2188
It's time that women see women oppression in the name of culture or religion as WRONG!
Tolerate ! But dont say a word.
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 we are males!" Religion was never with women. Right from the Vedic era to today's constitution there are hundreds and hundred pages written on female equality and devotion to her. Reality tells a different story; so far all the way it is only a glorified paradox.
Why do always 'women' sacrifice?
Do you wonder why is it that only women are expected to (and love to) sacrifice in all situations. If there is less of something, the woman will be the first to refuse it. If someone has to give up work for home responsibility, it has to be the woman. If someone has to wake up in the nights to change baby nappies, it has to be the woman (even if working). If the husband and wife like to watch different things on the telly, usually the husband's wishes will prevail. So on and so forth.
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International Women's Day Film Festival
If any of you live in Boston, you should consider checking out the IWDFF. It's show casing documentary films about women all over the world. Here's a list of what's playing: www.hinewengland.org/iwdff.php
I checked out the first film on Wednesday, and it was great! I think the rest of the films have a lot of potential as well. So if you're in or around the Boston area, check out the festival and pass along the news!
‘Strong Leadership. Strong Women. Strong World. Equality.’
Internationally, March has been declared Women’s History Month highlighting women’s achievements, roles and contributions in the effort towards equality between women and men worldwide. The Status of Women Canada announced the theme for 2009 as ‘Strong Leadership. Strong Women. Strong World. Equality.’ See the web page here,
www.cfc-swc.gc.ca/dates/iwd-jif/index-eng.html
It is equally important for men to be involved in the celebration of the women in their lives and to recognize these women for the equal partners they are.
I am proud to be raising four very strong, independent daughters who are clearly leaders of their generation. Over the years, they have been exposed to many powerful and passionate female role models ranging from school principals to reverends, and most importantly, mothers. I do include myself here, but the list is long in our family of strong independent matriarchs that struggle for the life they want while remaining the nurturing mother too.
As a Canadian, I like to explore those female role models that have made contributions to the movement of equality in our country. We have made great strides, though there is still movement necessary in order to close the gender gap. For a great list of some famous Canadians worth celebrating click on the following link;
www.heroines.ca/
A first reading of my poem In the Name of Gaia takes place on International Women’s Day, March 8th, at the Town Hall in Bloomfield Ontario from 2-4pm. The works of other commendable female contributors will also be displayed and read with a print version to follow.
Stand tall.
Peace.
The Sacredness of the Female!
Woman are the first teachers. When we are born we do not reach out for anything because its our mother who is the one who civilizes us to become better in our everyday activities in the essentals of life. This is why the woman is so sacred. She's to be protected because there is no such thing as a no good woman. When you see a no good woman its because she standing next to a no good man that made her no good. What do you mean? The first example for a young girl to know what it is to understand & determine a role model in a man is her father. If there is no father present & she grows up in a single parent house hold she would never understand what it is to have a good man. Why? Her father would show her by example what it is to be a good man. So when she wonders off into life she may make wrong choices in men. Remember we don't attract what we want we attract who we are. This is why a nation can't rise no higher than its woman. She holds the bearing of life in her womb. If you want to know a nation look at its women. They will determine the outcome of the society by their actions. She is like the moon. She has the magnetic attraction to either build or destroy. This is why she must always be protected & guarded from the poison mentallity of men who want to abuse them & have them do things they wouldn't do if they knew what it is to know what a man is. He is her maintainer & protector. I honor the woman because my mother & Grandmother (RIP) were examples of what I wanted for a wife.
Pass it on Grants from Anita Borg Institute
Hi Ladies,
Systers, which is the women's group for supporting women in computing has a program called the "Pass it on" grants. It involves women giving money to help those women who want to work in computing but don't necessarily have the means to.
I wrote about here and all the details are there as well as the link to the awards page. Anyone can apply and the grants go from $500-$1000.
www.scienceforseo.com/?p=368
Become a Syster if you're in computing!
CJ
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International Women's Day
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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.
International Women's Day and Millennium Development Goal 3 Perfect Match
11 days ago
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. anewmillennium.blogspot.com/2010/02/international-womens-day.html
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