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Can
this last long? To the little gentleman in black velvet! When Queen Anne of great renown My arms fail me. Go on in the same
way. I think I may have done pretty well. Writing is easy; all you do is sit
staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on
your forehead. I think that it is
about time that the truth of this miserable subject 'Spiritualism'
should be brought out. It is now widespread all over the world, and
unless it is put down soon it will do great evil. I was the first in
the field and have the right to expose it. |
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They were mere naked savages, and yet there is a
sort of pathos about it when that word children falls under your eye,
for it always brings before us our perfectest symbol of innocence and
helplessness; and by help of its deathless eloquence color, creed and
nationality vanish away and we see only that they are children –
merely children. And if they are frightened and crying and in trouble,
our pity goes out to them by natural impulse. We see a picture. We see
small forms. We see the terrified faces. We see the tears. We see the
small hands clinging in supplication to the mother; but we do not see
those children that we are speaking about. We see in their places the
little creatures whom we know and love.
Mark Twain on the March 8, 1906 Moro
massacre
Hundreds of women
gave the accumulated possibilities of an entire lifetime, thousands
gave years of their lives, hundreds of thousands gave constant
interest, and such aid as they could. It was a continuous, seemingly
endless, chain of activity. Young suffragists who helped forge the
last links of that chain were not born when it began. Old suffragists
who forged the first links were dead when it ended.
Carrie Chapman Catt
and Nettie Rogers Shuler
March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (68th in leap years), with 298 days remaining.
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"International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women seeking to participate equally in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for 'liberty, equality, fraternity' marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage."
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Today is also commemorated as the United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace.
From Wikipedia:
The idea of having an international women's day was first put forward at the turn of the 20th Century amid rapid world industrialization and economic expansion that led to protests over working conditions. Women from clothing and textile factories staged one such protest on March 8, 1857 in New York City. The garment workers were protesting what they saw as very poor working conditions and low wages. The protesters were attacked and dispersed by police. These women established their first labour union in the same month two years later.
More protests followed on March 8 in subsequent years, most notably in 1908 when 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. Even so, the first IWD was observed on February 28, 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. In 1910 the first international women's conference was held in Copenhagen by the Socialist International and an 'International Women's Day' was established. The following year, IWD was marked by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. However, just six days later, the Triangle Factory Fire in New York City killed over 140 garment workers. A lack of safety measures was blamed for the high death toll. Furthermore, on the eve of World War I, women across Europe held peace rallies on March 8, 1913.
Demonstrations marking International Women's Day in Russia proved to be the first stage of the Russian Revolution. Following the October Revolution, the Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai persuaded Lenin to make it an official holiday, and during the Soviet period it continued to celebrate "the heroic woman worker". The day remains an official holiday in Russia, and is observed by men congratulating women (any woman) and giving them gifts.
In the West, International Women's Day was commemorated during the 1910s and 1920s, but dwindled. It was revived by the rise of feminism in the 1960s. In 1975, the United Nations began sponsoring International Women's Day.
The Role of the United Nations
"Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.
"Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is 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." Source
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"Inspired by an American commemoration of working women, the German socialist Klara Zetkin organized International Women's Day (IWD) in 1911. On March 19, socialists from Germany, Austria, Denmark and other European countries held strikes and marches. Russian revolutionary and feminist Aleksandra Kollontai, who helped organize the event, described it as 'one seething trembling sea of women.'" Source
Refugees International Conducts Advocacy Training for the Afghan Women's Network in Kabul
Sexual Violence Against Women: The Displaced Are Especially Vulnerable
Evaluating the Implementation of UNHCR's Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women
Trafficking: A Threat to Women Worldwide Some dates in the history of IWD
Impact
of Conflict on Children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
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Perhaps the kindness could be reciprocated on International
Men's Day.
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