By: Amira Al Nahdi
The AUE International Majlis of Women celebrates the International Women’s day. In March 8 of each year, the world celebrates the women’s day, which is considered as an appreciation of the active role of women in various fields and their clear imprint in society. This day is also an occasion to focus on the gains of women, give them their full rights and protect them from any kind of social injustice.
The AUE International Majlis (IMW ) is the first platform for young women at AUE, that has been participating in variety of activities, awareness and influential events, like Breast Cancer Awareness in support of breast cancer awareness month, in city walk in October,21,2019 that was organized by Saeed Hamdan with the participations of popular and famous people like the Emirati singer Salama Hamdan.
The celebration of International Women’s Day came after the holding of the first conference of the International Women’s Democratic Union in Paris in 1945 and was the first global celebration of International Women’s Day, although some researchers believe that International Women’s Day was due to some women’s strikes that occurred in the United States.
The year 1945 witnessed, precisely, the first congress of the International Women’s Union in Paris to celebrate International Women’s Day. Although some researchers in the United States are likely to believe that International Women’s Day was the result of some women’s strikes that occurred in the United States in 1856, when thousands of women took to the streets of New York protesting the conditions and suffering they experienced. On the date of March 8, 1908, thousands of women working on the New York street went out to demonstrate and reduce their working hours, giving women the right to participate.
And with that, the United Nations Charter was issued in 1945, making it the first international agreement that stresses the importance of equality between women and men. And affirming the principle of the right of women to obtain their rights and protect them from social injustice.
