International Women’s Day is observed across the country today, as elsewhere in the world, with the theme ‘Rights, Equality, Empowerment/Development of Women and Girls’.
Women and social and political organisations have taken separate programmes to observe the day.
Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus issued a message on Friday expressing the hope that the country’s womenfolk will move forward in line with the developed world to materialize the dream of building a developed Bangladesh.
Highlighting the contribution of women to the recent students-people movement, Dr Yunus said women were at the forefront of the mass uprising in July-August that students, workers, and masses organized in search of the country’s democratic transformation.
Marking the day, the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs has taken elaborate programmes.
The Jatiya Press Club (JPC) will discuss at its Zahur Hossain Chowdhury Hall today at 11 a.m., with JPC President Hasan Hafiz in the chair.
On International Women’s Day, the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) will organize a rickshaw rally from the Banani Beltola area to Karail ground at 11:30 a.m.
Members and players of BLAST youth and women’s football teams will participate in it.
A colorful rally will be held at the initiative of Bangladesh Jatiyotabadi Mohila Dal on the same day.
After parading through different city streets, the rally will start in front of the BNP central office around 11 a.m. and end at the same venue.
BNP National Standing Committee member Begum Selima Rahman will be the chief guest. At the same time, the party’s senior joint secretary general, Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, will speak on the occasion as the main discussant.
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year.
After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women’s Day on February 28, 1909, in New York, the 1910 International Socialist Women’s Conference suggested holding it annually.
After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there.
The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted by the United Nations in 1975.
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