Women are fighting worldwide: rights threatened and progress celebrated!

Women are fighting worldwide: rights threatened and progress celebrated!

Gaza, Palästinensische Gebiete - March 8, the International Women's Day, stands at the door and symbolizes the decades of struggle for equality and the rights of women worldwide. Originally emerged from the workers' movement of the early 20th century, this day was first celebrated in countries such as Austria, Denmark and Germany in 1911. Since then, the public holiday that goes back to a strike of Russian women during the First World War has developed into a global event that not only recognizes achievements, but also denounces persistent inequalities. According to kosmo.at , this year's UN topic "Invest in women: speed up progress", since an immense investment of $ 360 billion per year is necessary to achieve gender equality, while over $ 342 and Girls could live in extreme poverty by 2030.

global challenges and progress

Although international women's day brings warm recognition and celebrations, a UN report warns that the rights of women are acute in every fourth country. The report describes that the number of women and girls in conflict areas has increased significantly within the past ten years. These endangered women's rights activists often experience persecution and even murder. UN Secretary General António Guterres emphasized that misery is still widespread. Collective efforts are needed to ensure the human rights and equality of all women and girls, such as Unric.org reported.

Despite the challenges, there are also bright spots: in countries like France, the right to abortion was anchored in the constitution, and in the European Parliament, laws on female representation were issued on company board members. In Spain, access to abortions has been expanded and even the Winter Olympics in Beijing are considered the most gender -friendly games. Such progress shows that the struggle for gender equality knows many hurdles, but can also be achieved, give hope and support the demands for more equality.