Joint Statement: International Women's Day

Speaker: Paola Salwan Daher, Center for Reproductive Rights Thank you, Mme. President, I deliver this statement on behalf of 17 organizations. International Women’s Day was established at the beginning of the 20th century as a strategy to promote equal rights. Since then, women human rights defenders, feminist groups and organizations and women’s rights activists have strived to uphold this legacy and lead the struggle for gender equality and against gender-based discrimination, patriarchal values and systemic patterns of oppression. Women and girls human rights defenders are building transnational…

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