WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN PALESTINE UNDER SIEGE

March 9, 2011 at 12:03 (Holidays, International Women's Day, Palestine)

 

On the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day Palestinian Women’s Rights Remain Under Siege

Yesterday, the 8th of March marked the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. Women across the world were mobilising and marching in celebration and protest, championing their freedom of expression and campaigning for further change. Al-Haq takes this opportunity to remind the rest of the world that in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) the struggle for the fundamental human rights of Palestinian women is held hostage to a belligerent and unrelenting occupation.

The Women Speak….

Source of above

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Also see THIS post written by my Son The CrazyComposer….

100 Years of International Women’s Day – What’s the Big Deal?

And my own annual repost….

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CELEBRATING WOMEN