A huge h/t to Skerricks for these great ideas on how to integrate International Women’s Day into the school environment. Check out the great photos of bookmarks, displays and banners like this one:
As announced on the whole-school assembly, all the girls and women of our school were invited to sign the banners. Interactivity! We had […]
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Gotta hand it to the fine folks at Walmart, always an opportunity to make a buck. If they really believed in women, maybe they wouldn’t have been on the wrong end of the mother of all discrimination suits…
Throughout March, Wal-Mart is celebrating International Women’s Day around the world by offering in-store promotional products for […]
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From the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA):
More than six thousand women from Vía Campesina and the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) participated in protests across Brazil on March 9. The direct actions were in celebration of International Women’s Day, and against the government’s continued support of multinational agribusiness in the country.
The protests took place […]
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Many thanks to Theresa de Langis of UNIEM Afghanistan for kind permission to cross-post these fabulous pictures of IWD in Afghanistan. Please visit Peace With Justice For Afghanistan to see more pictures.
Afghan women wearing blue:
4000 Afghan women come out to pray for peace:
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Many thanks to Lieve Snellings for forwarding the following photos:
Belgrade:
Brussels:
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As we all bask in the glow of the many wonderful International Women’s Day observances throughout the world, we’ll try to post as many pictures as we can when they come in from various events. This fabulous picture from the Million Women Rise event is courtesy of Ghosts and Shadows made available via Warriorgrrl on […]
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From Yanar Mohammed, President of the Organization For Women’s Freedom In Iraq:
Freedom and Equality remain the aim of our struggles
After seven years of occupation, women in Iraq still suffer from insecurity and outrageous misogynist practices of the Islamist and nationalist ruling militias. The multiplying anti-women media of the ruling militias attempt to abort all our […]
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Lebanon:
Cameroon:
Mysore, India:
Liberia:
Nepal:
Sydney, AU:
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As Jordan’s Queen Rania says in this video, shout if you have to:
A very happy and inspiring International Women’s Day to all!
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On the eve of International Women’s Day (March 8th) the United Nations in Viet Nam is calling for concerted efforts to tackle violence against women and girls in Viet Nam.
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, ‘Women and Men: United to End Violence against Women’ is a call to action underpinning a […]
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