At its opportunity Women's Day 8 March
Women's rights have occupied the UN since its founding in 1945. In 1946, the Committee on the Status of Women was established. (Commission on the Status of Women). In particular, after the end of colonialism and Apartheid, the UN dealt more systematically with women's issues by establishing the UN Office for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, known as the UN Women, established in 1976 by the Fund. United Nations Development Program (UNIFEM) and was launched in 2011.
In 2010 his General Assembly ΟΗΕ unanimously adopted Resolution 64/289 establishing the UN Women, merging the Directorate for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the International Institute for Women's Research and Training (INSTRAW-1976), the Office of the Special Adviser on Equality and Equality Women (OSAG), and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
The General Assembly, ECOSOC and the Committee on the Status of Women oversee the above bodies, as well as the UN Executive Board. It consists of 45 members: 13 from Africa, 11 from Asia, 9 from Latin America etc. countries, 8 from Western Europe, 6 from Eastern Europe, 6 from various other countries. Purpose: 1) Leadership and political participation, 2) Economic Empowerment, 3) End Violence against Women, 4) Humanitarian Action, 5) Peace and Security, 6) Governance and National Planning, 7) 2030 Guide to Sustainable Development, 8) HIV-AIDS.
World Conferences for women.
1976-1985 International Women's Decade. 1975 Mexico City Conference. 1985 Nairobi Conference. In 1995 4η World Conference on Women in Beijing. In 2009 the 30th was celebrated in Copenhagenη Anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Also, the Conference for the Development of Women in Addis Ababa in 2015.
Certainly, the frequent tragic incidents are known worldwide and especially in our country during the crisis with Covid. In some countries, genital mutilation, gang rape, etc. continue. crimes against women.
And in South Africa the most tragic thing that happens is related to HIV. Whether due to some kind of prejudice, superstition or miserable propaganda, men, believing that if they meet a virgin, they are cured of HIV, blackmail, rape innocent women, thus transmitting the disease to millions.
And a few words about 8η March, International Women's Day, which dates back 165 years to March 8, 1857, when the first textile workers' demonstration in New York was held to demand better working conditions, which ended in tragedy, as did the tragic labor crisis. accident in the same City where 14 immigrant women lost their lives.
Then, in remembrance and tribute to the above tragedies, in 1910 the German Clara Zetkin {Chetkin}, representative at the Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen, proposed the introduction of 8th March as International Women's Day, celebrated in 1911 and adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1977, is celebrated by most of the Organization's member countries.
Of course, with what is happening dramatically and tragically to the detriment of women's rights in many countries, I wonder if we have the right to talk about a "celebration" of the Day, or perhaps better about a "memorial service"?
Unfortunately, despite the "progress" that has been made in many areas with the significant contribution of the UN and its Organizations, in many cases there is reluctance or even setback, especially in some countries. The slave trade of women continues, as well as the social etc. their exclusion, e.g. non-employment of pregnant women, devastating working hours, low wages, undermining of trade union rights, indirect blackmail and sexual harassment, etc., plus the infamous partisan and partisan and trade union bribery, forcing many young girls to retire. This is the infamous bleeding of brains and labor that some powerful countries have turned into super-science!
As for our country, where tens of thousands of women have been sacrificed in the sacred struggle for freedom, peace and democracy in the BSEC, they have obviously been forgotten, and it is a tragic irony that leaders of powerful countries, with more ingratitude, have ignored our country. for war reparations from the Nazis, who destroyed Greece.
Also, for the tragedy of the Republic of Cyprus, where many women were killed or are missing, and for 47 years there have been Turkish occupation troops in violation of dozens of UN, international law and ODDA decisions.
In March 1908, 15 women demonstrated in New York under the slogan "Bread and Roses," the first symbolizing livelihood and the second general prosperity.
Obviously, however, the world leaders, in the context of unbridled competition, materialistic insanity and arrogance of power, take care to distribute "sponge cake" instead of bread, and only the thorns from the roses! Apparently, the latter keep them for those who, according to Demosthenes, are "strangely happy".
So, on the occasion of the "celebration" (observance would be more correct) of Women's Day, should women, but also men for support, demonstrate with a crown of thorns on the head?
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