International Women’s Day Action Urged for 8 March

This Wednesday, 8 March, marks the 97th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, a day of action in the continuing fight for equality and justice for all women. The ICFTU is in a fourth year of a “Unions for Women, Women for Unions” campaign in which the aim is to significantly increase unionisation rates of women workers in the informal economy, among migrant women workers, young women, and women in export processing zones.

The ICEM on 8 March calls attention to the appalling conditions of women workers in the developing world, the global pandemic of HIV/AIDS that finds women making up over half of those infected, and the rise of militarisation throughout the world that adversely affects women is so many ways. The ICEM urges all trade union affiliates to put in practice policies and initiatives for equality, opportunity and fairness not only for working women, but for women in all walks of life.