Marches, protests, strikes and studies -- people around the globe are taking action to mark International Women's Day and to strive for efforts to ...
PARIS: Marches, protests, strikes and studies - people around the globe are taking action to mark International Women's Day and to strive for efforts to obtain equality.Across Spain, women downed tools on Friday in a
With one woman or child is raped in the Philippines every hour, activists aiming to raise awareness about gender-based violence staged an exhibition of clothes worn by victims, called 'Don't tell me how to Dress'.In Pyongyang, Flower Shop No 5 is doing a brisk trade in flowers on International Women's Day, which is a, as a steady stream of customers turn up to buy blooms for their wives, mothers and significant others.
"In the last 20 years, the amount of time women spent on unpaid care and domestic work has hardly fallen, and men's has increased by just eight minutes a day," said Manuela Tomei of the UN's International Labour Organization. British author Caroline Criado Perez says it is the story of"what happens when we forget to account for half of humanity", citing examples which range from slight irritations to life-threatening situations.
Even consumer products are often male-centric with voice recognition software far more likely to accurately recognise men's speech, and mobile phones often too large for women's hands."Designers may believe they are making products for everyone, but in reality they are mainly making them for men."on horseback, although not bare-chested this time.
"Peace, then, is born of women, it arises and is rekindled by the tenderness of mothers. Thus the dream of peace becomes a reality when we look towards women ... If we dream of a future peace, we need to give space to women."France awarded the first Simone Veil Prize to Aissa Doumara Ngatansou, a Cameroonian woman who has spent 20 years helping victims of rape and forced marriages.
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