Quotes on International Women's Day
The role of the United Nations has been to strike an international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right by the member nations to initiate programmes to advance the status of women worldwide.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN"S Day, on March 8, is an occasion for women in all continents to come together to celebrate and to look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development, as is often said.
The occasion in France evokes the memories of the French Revolution, when Parisian women calling for 'liberty, equality, fraternity' marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.
The role of the United Nations has been to strike an international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right by the member nations to initiate programmes to advance the status of women worldwide.
Now, it is widely held that no enduring solution to 'society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation and the full empowerment, of the world's women'.
It was only 1975, during the UN-declared International Women’s Year, that the United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8. In 1977, the General Assembly officially adopted a resolution in which it proclaimed a United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace.
Here are some important quotes on women.
The role of the United Nations has been to strike an international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right by the member nations to initiate programmes to advance the status of women worldwide.
Now, it is widely held that no enduring solution to 'society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation and the full empowerment, of the world's women'.
It was only 1975, during the UN-declared International Women’s Year, that the United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8. In 1977, the General Assembly officially adopted a resolution in which it proclaimed a United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace.
Here are some important quotes on women.
- The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all- Aung San Suu Kyi
- She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning- Jane Austen
- Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability- Bella Abzug
- If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women- Abigail Adams
- Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights- Mahnaz Afkhami
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