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International Women's Day
2010
This year March 8, 2010 will mark 100 years of International Women’s Day.
All around the world people will celebrate the contributions of women in the movements to end
inequality and exploitation, to insist on the complete liberation of women and
to look forward to the day when oppression of all kinds has become a thing of
the past. Still women in most of the countries suffer from both racial and gender discrimination. Politicians are trying to
balance state budgets by slashing social services and government programs.
On International Women’s Day we salute the women throughout history who have stood up against injustice in our society and those women who continue to fight for change and a better future. Many countries have marked the International Women’s
Day as a national holiday, while others do their bit in honouring women on this special day.
On International Women’s Day, Actress Sandra Bullock bagged the Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 82nd
Annual Academy Awards. She won the Oscar for her wonderful performance in the film The Blind Side.
Kathryn Bigelow entered the history by becoming the first woman to bag the award at the 82nd Annual Academy
Awards. Bigelow’s film The Hurt Locker swept this year’s Academy Awards by
winning six Oscars, including Best Director award for herself and Best Picture
award. The film is all about the dangerous daily existence of an Army bomb defusal team. |
Actress Sandra Bullock
Kathryn Bigelow |
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International Women's Day 2010 in India
The day March 8, 2010, is set to become an eternally significant
for women in India. his is not because it's the 100th International Women's Day but because there is every likelihood of the long-pending Women's Reservation Bill eventually getting passed by the Rajya
Sabha. The bill, first formulated in 1996 to grant 33 per cent reservation to women in Parliament and state assemblies, comes up for consideration and passage on March 8 in the Rajya Sabha.
To mark the centenary celebrations of the International Women's Day
in style, Air India has lined up a team of female pilots and cabin crew, engineers and flight dispatchers for several international and domestic flights, including the non-stop service from Mumbai to New York. |
UPA chairperson Mrs.Sonia Ghandhi |
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International Women's Day 2009
International Women’s Day was celebrated internationally on Saturday, the 8th March 2009. This Day has been celebrated since the early
1900s, the United Nations has observed March 8th as International Women’s Day since 1977 to highlight that
active participation, equality and development of women is necessary for
securing peace, social progress and human rights; and to acknowledge the
contribution of women to the strengthening of international peace and security. |
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Deeply rooted discrimination against women in political, economic, social and cultural spheres weakens society as a whole, the UN
human rights chief has said on the occasion of International Women's Day 2009. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, noted that the negative effects of discrimination are magnified by conflict as well as natural and man-made disasters such as the current economic crisis.
The effect of meltdown in global markets and financial institutions and ensuing recession is likely to have a disproportionate impact on millions of women, who already formed the majority of the poor and disenfranchised even before the crisis developed. "Unless
gender- sensitive policies are adopted, I fear we may well witness a serious setback in areas where progress has taken decades to achieve," she said in message for the Day, observed
annually on March 8.
Studies show that a woman is raped every 35 minutes in India; female child mortality is higher than male by 25%-50% in India, Bangladesh
and Nepal; about 60% of women all over the world have complained about sexual harassment and that the average South Asian woman's risk of dying in childbirth is a hundred times greater than for a woman in an industrialised country (1 in 43 for South Asia and 1 in 4,000 for the developed world). |
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International Women's Day 2008
International Women’s Day is celebrated internationally
this year on Saturday, the 8th March 2008. This year’s theme is “Investing in Women and Girls” with a strong focus on
country level financing for gender equality. Highlighting this issue, the
priority theme of the 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW), which concluded today 7 March 2008, was “Financing for gender equality
and the empowerment of women”.
Unite to end violence against women campaign
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the 52nd session of the CSW on 25
February 2008 by launching a multi-year campaign to end violence against women
that will continue until 2015, to coincide with the target date for the Millennium Development Goals.
The campaign, which will run until 2015, aims to mobilize public opinion to
ensure that policy makers at the highest level work to prevent and eradicate
violence against women and to secure political will and increased resources to combat the problem.
"Violence against women is an issue that cannot wait. A brief look at the
statistics makes it clear. At least one out of every three women is likely to be
beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime. No country, no
culture, no woman young or old is immune to this scourge. It is a campaign for the women and girls who have the right to live free of
violence, today and in the future. It is a campaign to stop the untold cost that
violence against women inflicts on all humankind." - Remarks by Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon to the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 25 February 2008.
The campaign aims to mobilize public opinion to ensure that policy makers at the
highest level work to prevent and eradicate violence against women and to secure
political will and increased resources to combat the problem.
The initiative will harness the existing momentum in the General Assembly and
the Security Council to take action against all forms of violence against women,
including rape in conflict and post-conflict situations and builds upon decades
of work by women activists, women’s groups and other civil society organizations
who continue to lead the struggle to expose and counter violence. Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
(GCWA)
International Women's Day 2008 in India
The International Women's Day 2008
was celebrated in India at
Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi on 8th March 2008 in the presence of
Smt.Sonia Ghandhi, Chairperon , UPA. As a measure of recognition of achievements in the field of social development, 15
national awards are given to the Indian women.
The Ministry of Women and Child Development Government of India announced some welfare schemes for women as:
Launch of "Dhanalakshmi" Scheme announced to mark International Women Day 2008.
Launch of "Ujjwalla" Scheme for relief, rescue and rehabilitation of trafficked women. etc.
The International Women's Day 2008 being celebrated by different women organisations in India
Ministry of Science & Technology National Award for Women’s Development
Dr. Rani Bang has been awarded with National Award for Women’s Development through Application of Science & Technology in
recognition of her outstanding and pioneering contribution for the past two and a half decades on improving women’s health in rural India through an innovative and powerful approach of
research with the people and for the people. She has spearheaded the development of a comprehensive village health
care program which has now become a nationally and internationally
acclaimed model. This innovative approach of empowering rural women to take care of their community’s health has reduced the infant mortality in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra by over seventy five percent.
The award was conferred upon her by the President of India,
Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil at the National Conference on Showcasing Cutting Edge Science & Technology by Women in New Delhi.
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