[kanu_libra]

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.


International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.


The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies.


The Role of the United Nations

Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.


Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.


Happy International Women's Day!!

[supervish]

Looks like a copied article to moi. Why haven't ya credited the source?

[kanu_libra]

Originally Posted by supervish

Looks like a copied article to moi. Why haven't ya credited the source?

Oops! sorry...
Will remember frm next time...

[shells]

HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY...

cheers
shells

[capreal26]

This is 'International' Women's day.. are there country specific Women's/Men's days too.. One hell of a job keeping track of such important occasions. Hats off to you..

[CATCALL]

just a simple query, hw many women members have become PG(pagal gals i mean) up till now ?

neways HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY to all the lady members here on the forum

cheers !!!!
vishu.

[gthm159]

Happy women's day to all the ladies....

For ladies in Bangalore, just go to Bangalore Central and get your very own International Women's Day rose. Enjoy...

cheers,
Googz

[D e e p t i]

Originally Posted by gthm159

Happy women's day to all the ladies....

For ladies in Bangalore, just go to Bangalore Central and get your very own International Women's Day rose. Enjoy...

cheers,
Googz

Woman's day rose? wats that?

[Francesco CATtie]

how did i miss out this thread??

dint realise that itz some occasion even after seeing ladies in office dressed in sarees

n e ways ........ Happy Women's Day to all the ladies on the forum

cheeeeeerz,
vijay

[r@dix]

Originally Posted by supervish

Looks like a copied article to moi. Why haven't ya credited the source?

hey.. this is where kanu's material came from..

http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm

have fun ladies..(though beats me y u folks need a spcl day).. arey.. every day of the yr is urs neways..