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International Women’s Day, 8th March 2015

-Do you know that ... the first International Women's Day was held in 1911?

-Do you know that ... the 2015 Theme is: 

Empowering Women - 

Empowering Humanity:

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"To be truly transformative, the post-2015 development agenda must prioritize gender equality and women’s empowerment. The world will never realize 100 per cent of its goals if 50 per cent of its people cannot realize their full potential. “ (Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon)

Read more about the importance women have in our society and how they have been fighting for their rights. Here

Do you know what actress Patricia Arquette said at the Oscar Ceremony Awards when she got her Oscar? 

She dedicated it  "To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of 

this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights, it’s our time to 

have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United 

States of America.”

 Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity. (Gandhi)