International Women’s Day is almost here and again this week announcements keep pouring in for all the amazing and inspiring events being held throughout the world. This will be our last weekly update but we will continue to post events between now and the 8th. Be sure to also check out tomorrow’s post on some Sell-abrations that we are less than enthusiastic about. Really, just one day a year could we maybe cut out the exploitation of women? Sadly, apparently not–but today we are all about the upcoming celebrations that honor women’s lives and on the 8th we will have a special post as part of the IWD Blogathon (see below).In the meantime, here is what we have to look forward to:
In Harlem (New York City), NY/US there will be numerous events to bring attention to the needs of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. See here and here for details.
Nevada, CA/US’s
KVMR’s Women’s Collective Members will join or replace regularly scheduled DJs on International Women’s Day to celebrate in our own, KVMR way! Please join us in spreading the word about International Women’s Day and listen in when you can.
From March 8-31, 2010, The Women’s International Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN)
is organizing the sixth annual International Women’s Day Broadcast Campaign. The campaign will feature programs produced by community radio stations around the world. This year’s theme is: “Empowering and celebrating women as agents of recovery.”
AMARC-WIN welcomes submissions on all topics of importance to women, especially those related to this year’s theme. Programs may be in any language, but must be accompanied by a brief description of content in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese. Submissions should be made by March 4, 2010. For more information on how to make a submission, click here.
The International Women’s Day Broadcast Campaign will begin at 1:00 GMT on Monday, March 8. The webcast will be available here.
has prepared a large-scale program of celebration of the International Women’s Day – March 8. As the Turkmenistan.ru correspondent reports from Ashgabat, the program was published in the print media of Turkmenistan. The program includes a series of exhibitions of works of fine and decorative art, festive forums, concerts, performances, soirees and competitions that will be held in the capital and across the country.
For example, the beauty contest among the female students titled “Talyp Gozeli -2010″ and contest of artists titled “Woman – the beauty of the world” will be held in Ashgabat ahead of the approaching spring festival in honor of “the fair sex” of humanity. On March 7, the opera “Shahsenem and Gharib” will be performed at the National Music and Drama Theater Makhtumkuli in Ashgabat.
By tradition, cash bonuses will be handed to women of Turkmenistan on behalf of the President of Turkmenistan.
is preparing to join the rest of the UN member states to observe the international women’s day on Monday, March 8.
According to a release from the permanent secretary, Ministry of Labour and social affairs on Monday, Provision of equal opportunities for women is a critical path to prosperity for all in Uganda.
The release says inequalities between women and men, girls and boys in basic rights, resources allocation and utilization, voice and decision making exacerbates poverty and undermine development.
While these inequalities mostly disadvantage women and girls, ultimately they harm every one in society. It is important that measures to promote greater equality between women and men are integral parts of the prosperity for all programme said the release.
However, women with special needs such as women with disabilities, women in hard to reach areas, older women, women living with HIV/AIDS, the unemployed and those living in absolute poverty must be specially targeted in order to enable them escape this economic isolation, said the release.
In Guatemala
Thirteen Threads, a Maya women’s educational program based in Panajachel,
is putting on its first International Women’s Day event. Representatives from each of its 22 participating Maya women’s groups will display their weavings and natural products. There will be live music, talks by indigenous women leaders, a mini-workshop on natural dyeing of fibers, free yoga class, a raffle with great prizes, face painting, and lots more fun for the whole family. All proceeds from the raffle will go directly to supporting Thirteen Threads’ educational programs. Come out to celebrate and support women leaders!
Sat., 6th, 10am – 6pm
Centro Commercial “Los Barandales,”
at the bottom of Calle Santander,
Panajachel, Lake Atitlán.
will be a hive of activities as plans to celebrate International Women’s Day will be held in the lobby from March 8 to 14. An opening ceremony will see a cheerleading display by the Titans, followed by a ribbon cutting ceremony performed by State Executive Councillor Dato’ Hamidah Osman, President of Perak Women for Women (PWW) Dr. Sharifah Halima, and President of Soroptimist International Ipoh (SI Ipoh) Jeya Jeyaratnam. The two NGOs, PWW and Si Ipoh, are the organisers of the event. Dato’ Hamidah will then lead the advocacy activity by sticking mock figures of both male and female to signify “equality” and “progress for all”, followed by invited guests who will also add their signatures. This is to signify support for the United Nations theme this year – EQUAL RIGHTS, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES.
Members of a variety of organizations including Oxfam Canada, Amnesty International, the We Can Coalition, unions and local women’s organizations have teamed up to celebrate International Women’s Day with a rally and conference called “Women’s Voices at the Table.” The “at the table” concept is part of a broadly-based Canadian and global civil society campaign to mobilize women to be heard and to declare our right to be “at the table” with leaders at the G8/20 meetings taking place in Canada this June.
From the White Ribbon Alliance:
“The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is asking people around the world to wear white and hold a dinner party in March for the 100th year of International Women’s Day on the 8th. Please get together with your friends, have some fun and join this global celebration of women and newborns saved and also to remember those lost.
Together women around the world can really show governments and national leaders that we won’t be ignored and that all women in every country deserve access to basic healthcare. We can save so many lives by refusing to be ignored. Please Play Your Part to prevent the needless deaths of women and newborns in childbirth.”
In Los Angeles, CA/US, Mujeres de Maiz will be holding their13 Anniversary Live Art Show: 13 Baktun,
An interdisciplinary, intercultural, intergenerational event honoring International Women’s Day and Women’s Herstory Month with events along First Street in Boyle Heights/East LA.
Click here for a list of blogs participating in the International Women’s Day Blogathon organized by Gender Across Borders.
