International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world every March 8.
It has its origin in the labor movement of the 19th century and its first celebration was in February 1909 in New York City (USA). The objective was to claim women’s rights as well as social and labor equality.
It was born from a declaration of the US Socialist Party on the occasion of the strike of the textile workers. For months they had been demanding an improvement in their painful working conditions.
At the II International Conference of Socialist Women in 1910 in Copenhagen, universal suffrage for all women was demanded. In addition, March 8 was proclaimed as International Women’s Day at the proposal of Clara Zetkin.
One of the blackest chapters in the fight for women’s rights happened on March 25, 1911. More than a hundred women died in a fire in a factory. The owner of the textile factory was the one who locked up the workers and set them on fire so that they would not protest their employment situation.
In 1975 the UN celebrated the International Women’s Year. However, it took until 1977 for the UN General Assembly to proclaim Women’s Day.
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