World dignitaries including the President of the United States of America Barack Obama and UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon proclaim official statements supporting International Women's Day and its focus. Celebrity supporters for the day include singer-songwriter and We are Equals activist Annie Lennox, Avon Foundation advocate Reese Witherspoon and OXFAM supporter Kristin Davis.
For decades women have banded together to challenge injustices, overcome barriers and pursue equality. International Women's Day provides an opportunity to commemorate these efforts, celebrate progress and call for commitment to women's rights, peace and equality. Social media and #womensday tweets provide a whole new way to interact, clearly a contrast to the days of pioneering suffragettes.
Glenda Stone, founder of the internationalwomensday.com website that has served as a global hub for International Women's Day events, resources and news for over a decade says:
“Activity on International Women's Day has skyrocketed over the last five years. This is due to the rise of social media, celebrity involvement, and corporations taking on the day sponsoring and running big events. Our twitter.com/womensday community with around 10,000 followers is phenomenal for sharing videos, information and news as it happens. Offline large scale women's rallies have become even larger through the use of social media. It would be hard to find any country that did not celebrate the day in some way.”
International Women's Day, which saw its first event run in 1911, continues to provide a powerful opportunity to unite, network and mobilise worldwide for meaningful change. It provides an opportunity to make a stand against inequality, discrimination and marginalisation that only serves to weaken all of our societies.
International Women's Day theme
"Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures" is the 2012 theme of the internationalwomensday.com website and this has been widely used by hundreds of organisations including schools, universities, governments, women's groups and the private sector. Each year the United Nations declares an overall International Women's Day theme. Their 2012 theme is “Empower Rural Women - End Hunger and Poverty”. Many organisations develop their own themes that are more relevant to their local contexts. For example, the European Parliament's 2012 theme is "Equal pay for work of equal value".
International Women's Day 2012 logos
International Women's Day logos are available for download for use without written permission in various formats and file types at http://www.internationalwomensday.com/linkto.asp
- UN WOMEN - Responsible for the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women that convenes from 27 February to 9 March 2012 at United Nations headquarters in New York. It focuses on the theme of empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, sustainable development and current challenges. They also coordinate largescale breakfasts around the world that attract thousands of women - http://www.unwomen.org
- Million Women Rise - Sees large groups of women descend on a central location for rallies calling to stop the violence for women and girls - see
For decades women have banded together to challenge injustices, overcome barriers and pursue equality. International Women's Day provides an opportunity to commemorate these efforts, celebrate progress and call for commitment to women's rights, peace and equality. Social media and #womensday tweets provide a whole new way to interact, clearly a contrast to the days of pioneering suffragettes.
Glenda Stone, founder of the internationalwomensday.com website that has served as a global hub for International Women's Day events, resources and news for over a decade says:
“Activity on International Women's Day has skyrocketed over the last five years. This is due to the rise of social media, celebrity involvement, and corporations taking on the day sponsoring and running big events. Our twitter.com/womensday community with around 10,000 followers is phenomenal for sharing videos, information and news as it happens. Offline large scale women's rallies have become even larger through the use of social media. It would be hard to find any country that did not celebrate the day in some way.”
International Women's Day, which saw its first event run in 1911, continues to provide a powerful opportunity to unite, network and mobilise worldwide for meaningful change. It provides an opportunity to make a stand against inequality, discrimination and marginalisation that only serves to weaken all of our societies.
International Women's Day theme
"Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures" is the 2012 theme of the internationalwomensday.com website and this has been widely used by hundreds of organisations including schools, universities, governments, women's groups and the private sector. Each year the United Nations declares an overall International Women's Day theme. Their 2012 theme is “Empower Rural Women - End Hunger and Poverty”. Many organisations develop their own themes that are more relevant to their local contexts. For example, the European Parliament's 2012 theme is "Equal pay for work of equal value".
International Women's Day 2012 logos
International Women's Day logos are available for download for use without written permission in various formats and file types at http://www.internationalwomensday.com/linkto.asp
- UN WOMEN - Responsible for the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women that convenes from 27 February to 9 March 2012 at United Nations headquarters in New York. It focuses on the theme of empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, sustainable development and current challenges. They also coordinate largescale breakfasts around the world that attract thousands of women - http://www.unwomen.org
- Million Women Rise - Sees large groups of women descend on a central location for rallies calling to stop the violence for women and girls - see
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