Minister leads call to end violence against women in Iraq on IWD

Iraqi women on 8 March, International Woman’s Day, called for an end to violence against women nationwide and for equal status with men, especially in top jobs, including ministries and embassies.
“Iraqi women are now crying out: stop killing, stop violence,” said Nariman Othman, minister of women’s rights, who led a delegation to the head [...]

‘This is International Women’s Day!’ Women Liberal Democrats

Campaigning for Women inside and outside the Liberal Democrats
Our president, Lorely Burt MP, introduced the meeting. She is convinced that there will be many more women among the ranks of LibDem members after the next election, due to the work of WLD and the Campaign for Gender Balance. But she emphasised that WLD is concerned, [...]

International Women’s Day Event Report from Carmarthenshire

Glanymor and Tyisha Communities First organised a full day’s event to celebrate International Women’s Day on Friday 7 March at Morfa Social Club. There were stalls from many organisations and performances and workshops by women from all around the world.
Mrs Uzo Iwobi, Chair of the African Community Centre in Wales was the compere for [...]

Sexual Apartheid, Political Islam and Women’s Rights – videos

To see video of speeches at the March 10 seminar commemorating International Women’s Day including:
Maryam Namazie’s speech entitled:
* Challenges facing the women’s liberation movement (Transcript is here)
Mina Ahadi’s speech entitled:
* Significance of hejab and stoning for political Islam and the resistance against it
Houzan Mahmoud’s speech entitled:
* Women pioneering the struggle for secularism and ending gender [...]

Controversial issues raised at International Women’s Day conference in Batley Town Hall

Domestic violence and forced marriage were some of the issues discussed by women at a conference aimed at raising awareness.
International Women’s Day was marked by the event at Batley Town Hall, where women from across Kirklees were invited to discuss controversial issues as well as be inspired by female role models.
It was a key opportunity [...]

IBW Film Festival Review

Following our recent meeting with Sylviane Rano, co-founder of IBW, where she talked passionately of her mission, I was pleased to see that the three-day long festival kept its promises.
Friday evening saw a committed audience (95% of whom, expectedly, were black women) bring support to IBW’s positive action, and watch Talk To Me, directed by [...]

As Women Celebrate International Women’s Day in Nigeria

Nigeria joined many countries of the world and the United Nations (UN) to celebrate the International Women’s Day (IWD) with the theme “Investing in Women and Girls”..
The IWD celebration began on 8 March in 1975, during International Women’s Year. Two years later, precisely in December 1977, the General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming a [...]

March 8 to be a working special holiday to be known as National Women’s Day in the Philipines

Women’s groups, men’s organizations, provincial government employees and concerned stakeholders from different private and government line agencies flocked at the Provincial Capitol Building last Monday, March 10, 2008 in commemoration of the National Women’s Month.
Anchored with the local theme: “CEDAW ng Bayan: Yaman ng Kababaihan,” this year’s celebration focuses on the need to generate [...]

Flying start to Women’s Day in Wicklow

People in Arklow on Saturday may have thought they were seeing things when a flock of white doves were released into the air.
This unusual display, however was to celebrate International Women’s Day and to mark the launch of a new information leaflet about domestic violence.
Organised by Arklow CDP, the event was aimed at raising awareness [...]

On IWD KwaZulu-Natal calls for an end to women abuse

The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Premier’s office has issued a strong message against the abuse of women in the province as International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated worldwide today.
Premier Sbu Ndebele’s spokesperson, Logan Maistry, says more than one billion people in the world, the great majority of whom are women, still live in unacceptable conditions of poverty, [...]

Women in Mumbai on International Women’s Day

Various women organizations gathered in Mumbai to urge government to shed apathy towards ensuring gender equity on International Women’s Day (IWD).
“We are observing the day as the day of breach of confidence. Many promises were made to us, we were told that 33 per cent reservation for women in jobs and in Parliament would be [...]

Women’s Day March in Nablus

On Thursday 6th March 2008 the Women’s Committees of Nablus marched through the centre of the city to protest against the recent massacre in Gaza during which more than 115 people were murdered. In preparation for International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, the women of Nablus took to the streets carrying banners and [...]

Afghan women mark International Women’s Day

More than 1,000 women gathered at two events in Kandahar on Saturday to mark International Women’s Day.
One after the other, women who had lost their sons, husbands and brothers to the fighting and suicide attacks in Afghanistan rose, wrapped in white scarves, to share their stories.
Sobbing, they called for peace and for women’s rights. There [...]

“I feel like a bird in a cage, with broken wings. I feel I am in an open prison, though with no bars.”

These words are not the lyrics of a song. Neither are they a verse from a poem. Rather, they are a description of how a young mother feels day after day. She lives in County Mayo and is a medical doctor.
Last Friday afternoon, along with a number of other women, she addressed an audience in [...]

WOZA Members Beaten in the Streets of Bulawayo on International Women’s Day

Over 1,000 members of WOZA and MOZA marched through the streets of Bulawayo
today to commemorate International Women’s Day.
The peaceful protesters, who were carrying balloons, were met by riot police after four blocks and viciously beaten. Over 50 members received medical attention for injuries caused by the assault.
The aim of this march was to exhort [...]