By: Kauser Khan, Editor-ICN
Today, on the International Women’s Day, Google has created a doodle to honour female trailblazers from around the world.
On March 8th, men and women from around the globe will gather together, peacefully protest injustice and celebrate progress made in regards human rights and equal freedoms.
In India, women are traditionally referred to as Lakshmi, the one who symbolises goodness, prosperity and infinite power.Though womanhood doesn’t need a specific day for celebrations, March 8 asserts the importance of the presence of the femininity that not just gives birth to new life but also nurtures it with love, care and warmth.
On this International Women’s Day, send these special messages to the lovely women in your life – she could be your mother, sister, friend, aunt, daughter, grandma or wife.
Facebook will celebrate International Women’s Day with a 24-hour around-the-world live broadcast, celebratory artwork that people may see in News Feed directing them to the experience, as well as many other ways to support the day.
In 1909, the first National Woman’s Day was observed in the United States on February 28. The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.
March 8 was declared a holiday in Soviet Russia and later the day was predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries. The United Nations adopted March 8 as International Women’s Day in 1975.
In 1977, the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women’s rights and world peace.
International Women’s Day celebrates the history of women fighting for economic, political and reproductive rights, and we are continuing this fight,” says Ailbhe Smyth, Convenor of the Repeal the Eighth Coalition. “We will not sit by as they decide what rights and freedoms we should have over our own bodies, our lives, and our futures.”
China has long celebrated Women’s Day, though lately the holiday has taken a more commercial bent, largely eschewing the issues the holiday was created to support. Last year, men celebrated the event by donning dresses and high heels to hike up a mountain in Guangdong Province.
