03/08/2010 - 21:00
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“Putting women and women’s rights to equality on the global agenda is the moving force behind International Women’s Day. The idea of a day for women, celebrated all over the world, began at the beginning of this century in America and Europe. The focus was the movement for women’s rights and achieving universal suffrage for women. (…) In December 1977 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming a United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace.”
http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/un_days/women1.asp
http://www.un.org/events/women/iwd/2008/
