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World celebrates International Women’s day 2017

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International Women’s Day was initially celebrated as International Working Women’s Day and the earliest celebration is believed to be held at a socialist political event in New York City in 1909.

Observed from the 1900s, Women’s Day is celebrated every year on March 8. While it is not celebrated in association with any one group, the day brings together State governments across the world, many women welfare and empowerment organisations, non-profits and charities with the ulterior motive of celebrating women. IWD was initially celebrated as International Working Women’s Day and the earliest celebration is believed to be held at a Socialist political event in New York City in 1909.

IWD was mostly celebrated in socialist and Communist countries before the United Nations adopted it in 1977. The UN celebrates the day on the basis of different themes.

As the name implies, it is a day to celebrate womanhood, their social, political, cultural, political, economic achievements and their significant contributions to society, while laying importance on gender equality. People across the world come together to commemorate women — not just well-known personalities, but also each woman who plays a pivotal part in the shaping of their lives. The day has come to be increasingly associated with feminism and equal rights for women. It asserts the equal freedoms and rights that women have access to just like men.

With the widening context of women and their rights across the world, different themes every year highlighted the atrocities that women are facing.
Many programmes to prevent rape and help rape survivors and those oppressed in conflict zones were also started later across the world. Programmes such as Empowering Women and Girls through International Exchanges, on the eve of IWD this year have been implemented.

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