Women around the world are fighting for their lives, safety, rights, and change. Never give up the fight for women’s rights. Throughout the globe, women’s rights are in jeopardy whether it be access to abortions, protection from sexual violence and violence, discrimination, or silencing of women’s voices.
For more about the importance of this day, please read:
Amnesty International: Women’s Day: the world must resist mounting attacks on gender justice
The headlines in the news are indicating that women and girls are not safe anywhere and that governments are not doing anything to protect women and girls from the onslaught of violence against them. If anything, governments are part of the problem implementing policies like abortion bans and not holding perpetrators of violence against women and children accountable.
Reuters: Infants as young as one raped in Sudan, UNICEF says
Sudan Tribune: Sudan conflict sees systematic sexual violence against women, says UN mission
The New Arab: 21 Palestinian women face systematic abuse in Israeli prisons
Palestinian Chronicle: ‘Stain on Humanity’: Palestinian Women Endure Unprecedented Israeli Violence
UN: DR Congo crisis leaves mothers with newborns fleeing to Burundi
The New Times: A Women’s Day plea for women in DR Congo
MSF: Haitian women are trapped between violence and poverty in Port-au-Prince
Global Centre For The Responsibility To Protect: Open Letter to the Haitian Transitional Government Demanding Action on Gender-Based Violence
UNESCO: UNESCO gives voice to Afghan girls and women and call or their rights to be restored
National Post: The forgotten women of Afghanistan under the Taliban
The Eastleigh Voice: Women’s Day: How femicide threatens women’s gains in Kenya
Stockholm Center for Freedom: 21 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in February
The Guardian: More than 170 mothers killed by their sons in 15 years in UK, report reveals
Johns Hopkins: Two New Studies Provide Broadest Evidence to Date of Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans
BBC: US infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
UN News: One in four countries report backlash against women’s rights in 2024
Support and empower women and girls everyday, not just today. Lives are on the line and need as many voices to stand up for all women and all girls.
My love, support, and prayers for women and girls that you know how loved, special, brilliant, and beautiful each and every one of you are. I am in awe of you all on a constant basis because the compassion, love, care, and knowledge that I see women share between each other, it is one thing that keeps me believing in humanity.
Never forget: Women’s rights are human rights.
From the river to the sea, may the whole world be free.
Never give up your rights
Disrupt everything
Protest
BE UNGOVERNABLE
Strike
Donate
Vote 3rd party
Boycott
Demand sanctions and embargoes for Israel, US, UK, Germany, France, Australia, RSF, UAE, Russia, SAF, M23, and Rwanda.
Please extend your energy to other countries and people facing atrocities and genocide in Palestine, Sudan, DRC, Haiti, West Papua, the Rohingyas, Armenians, the Uyghurs, Yemen, Lebanon, and Afghanistan.