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A Dialogue .

On the Occasion ofInternational Women's Day .

Dear Friends., .

The intemational women 'r dt(l' on March ff' is an occasion to remember the historic struggle of women for an equal and dignified lite It if a time to reiterate our commitmem for a gender equality and democratic society. It ir a moment to rejlect on our failures, celebrate our success and revitalize our.

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Remembering March 8th... .

()1, March ff'. 1857, thousands ofworking women from garment factories in Nrnv York marched and.

p icketed against .

hours and low and .

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working conditions led · lfle Dialogue Session·11 BamJas discriminatory ll ages .

struggle for improved.

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the first women s College, Diliveflftr.JJJ Delbl · to the establishmem oflater. Some of the .

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labour union two years .

movement include the .

stalwarts of the.

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Jones, Ella Reeve Date: 6th Marttf.-·20bt·. · .

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Sojurner Truth and .

Bloor, Kate Jiullaney,.

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Although these women Venue: sem;n~r ROOin; · . .

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strength and inspiraJion.

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world, it is important to .

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movements all over the.

backbone of the 1857 .

remember that the.

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subsequent struggles .

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women whose names . . .... . .

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remained a clarion call . . . and roses, thm is a .

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world even to this day. decent life. has .

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Halfa decade after the historic March 8' protest in 1910, Clara Jetkin, o German commzmist leader. .

proposed to the 2"" international conference of working women that A/arch 8' should be adopted as .

women's day, international in character, to honour the working women's moement and press for .

universal adult suffrage. Since then, this day has become an occasion to express solidarity with ongoing .

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women S struggles and organise against patriarchal and exploitative practices. .

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On Violence .

Commonly understood sexual harassment and violencP. implies rape or direct physical abuse. Sometimes the news ofa violent rape creates a furore for sometime and then we again sink back into complacence. We fail to realize that the system ofpatriarchy IV/zich gil'<!S rise to rape is a part andparcel ofour every experience. Moreover, rape and violence are not simply acts ofa fow deprm·ed indi,·iduals but a weapon used systematically by indil'lduals, society and state to subjugate women or teach them a .

lesson. Thus when a Bhawri Devi .steps ow ofher expected social and gender role and orgcmi=es people .

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