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People across the globe have come together to celebrate International Women’s Day. The March 8 event gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse ...
A pardon and an apology was made on International Women's Day 2022. [161] [162] [163] The Women's Party (Korean: 여성의당), a South Korean single-issue political party, was founded on International Women's Day 2020 and advocates for feminism.
The march led to the creation of The Women's History Research Center, a central archive of the women's movement from 1968 to 1974. [5] Laura X also thought it unfair for half the human race to have only one day a year and called for National Women's History Month to be built around International Women's Day. [6]
The International Women of Courage Award, also referred to as the U.S. Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award, is an American award presented annually by the United States Department of State to women around the world who have shown leadership, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to sacrifice for others, especially in promoting women's rights.
International Women’s Day is a chance to reflect on these leaders’ successes and the challenges they face. This year, Fortune curated a list of female leaders at the helm of European companies ...
People around the world have marked International Women's Day on 8 March for more than a century. It grew out of a labour movement advocating for women's rights before becoming an international event.
National Women's Day (Zulu: Usuku Lwabesifazane, Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouedag) is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an ...
International Women's Year (IWY) was the name given to 1975 by the United Nations. Since that year March 8 has been celebrated as International Women's Day, and the United Nations Decade for Women, from 1976 to 1985, was also established. [1] [2]