Celebrating Women
Today, women across the globe are celebrating International Women's Day!!! To observe this day in my own special blogging way, I am posting the following which I conveniently stripped from CNN.com!Women's groups around the world mark March 8 as International Women's Day, an annual holiday to reflect on the struggle for equality, justice and peace. Click through the gallery to see celebrations, protests and commemorations this year.
A woman smells Mimosa flowers, one of the symbols of the International Women's Day, in downtown Rome on Wednesday.
A student inspects a rose before buying it for his girlfriend on a Hanoi street Wednesday. The day is marked throughout Vietnam, especially in the urban areas, mainly by men offering gifts and flowers to women.
Protesters picket the U.S. Embassy in Manila Tuesday to show their support for a Filipino woman who filed a rape case against four U.S. Marines who took part in military exercises last year. The protest was meant to coincide with the weeklong worldwide celebration of International Women's Day.
Turkish women in traditional Anatolian costumes gather Sunday in an Istanbul square as part of demonstrations for the upcoming International Women's Day celebrations.
An Afghan woman's portrait on a shopping booth advertises International Women's Day in Kabul on Tuesday.
A man selects roses Tuesday in the center of Moscow to give as a gift for International Women's Day.
Women bang on pots and pans at a protest in front of the Presidential Palace in Brasilia on Wednesday. They are demanding the right for homemakers to collect retirement funds.
Sri Lankan teens perform with traditional instruments Tuesday during an event organized by a women's alliance in Colombo. The "We Can" alliance organized the event to demand an end to violence against women.
Female prisoners celebrate the day by participating in a beauty contest Wednesday in the village of Stepnoye, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) outside of the country's capital Bishkek(Kyrgyzstan).
Bangladeshi victims of acid attacks join a People Awareness rally organized by the Acid Survivors’ Foundation at the Central Sheed Minar in Dhaka on the eve of International Women's Day. 
According to the foundation, a total of 268 people, mostly women, were attacked with acid last year in Bangladesh. Most of the victims are attacked by spurned lovers, the foundation said.
Demonstrators in Warsaw hold placards with feminist slogans on Sunday during an early celebration to mark International Women's Day.
posted by surbhi seth @ 1:30 PM
3 Comments:
whys there no mens day? evry day is womens day anywy!!
icy highs- Well, I suppose for being the magnificent species that we are!!! LOL... I'm not hating on the male species.. It's just that, men today, are still the law makers, rulers of majority of the world... you see where I'm going with this. In my view, everyday is men's day... women just need to have a day committed to their issues..considering we have many like: Abuse of women, Women's rights issues, etc.. Men, on the other hand.. don't seem to have such problems!
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