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  1. NZ IWD marchers call for changes to rape laws

    Bronwen Beechey 702 Middle East March 9, 2007 International Women's Day (IWD) — March 8 — was ... Auckland, several hundred women and men marched through the city centre in the largest IWD action for ...

  2. A woman's place is in the struggle: IWD and the birth of women workers' struggle

    International Women's Day, it is a day with very different origins. The birth of IWD almost 100 years ago ... concede to, but which the strikers eventually won. The first IWD was held on March 19, 1911, the date ... he failed to keep. Kollontai noted in 1920 that the first IWD "succeeded all expectation. ...

  3. PAKISTAN: IWD celebrated in Lahore

    Bhatti town council, explained that IWD is a day to remember the heroic struggle of women to demand the ...

  4. BRITAIN: IWD marches oppose Iraq war

    Iraq. There were IWD anti-war protests across Britain organised by the Stop the War Coalition. The ...

  5. IWD celebrated in Cambodia

    organised a series of activities to celebrate IWD, including a bicycle ride, an arts and crafts exhibition ...

  6. Abortion picket marks IWD

    Abortion picket marks IWD By Freya Pinney BRISBANE — "This demonstrates how so-called ...

  7. IWD marches show feminism is far from over

    Jabiluka Action Group, Sunni Dawson (IWD Collective and Amnesty International), Danny Coulson (ASIET), and ... of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders. IWD Collective member and DSP activist Karen ... women's services and the abolition of anti-abortion laws. Speakers included the IWD Collective's Jen ...

  8. INDONESIA: IWD rallies dominated by fuel protests

    activists from the Women's and People's Coalition for Reform (KPRP) commemorated IWD and opposed ...

  9. Thousands march on IWD

    as a black woman in a predominantly white business. A number of well-attended IWD forums were also ...

  10. Refugee messages for IWD

    IWD is "Women against war, racism and sexism: We demand jobs, education, child care, reproductive ...

  11. Socialist women and IWD

    Despite this, the first issue came out on IWD 1914. Its 12,000 copies were sold on the day. Women did ...

  12. IWD rallies: 'Defend and extend women's rights'

    829 March 5, 2010 Five hundred people marched from Sydney Town Hall to Martin Place on March 6 to mark International Women’s Day. Trade unions and migrant women’s organisations were among the groups represented in the crowd. The march included a very vibr ...

  13. Trades Hall organises IWD rally

    Emma Brown Naarm/Melbourne This year's annual International Women's Day rally in Melbourne is being organised by the Victorian Trades Hall Council. To be held at the GPO at noon on March 8, the rally will focus on protesting against PM John Howa ...

  14. INDONESIA: Police attack IWD march

    484 March 13, 2002 BY NGLINTING DARMONO YOGYAKARTA — Two hundred protesters from across central Java gathered in Yogyakarta on March 8 to mark International Women's Day. The protesters marched from Gadjah Mada University to the regional parliament. T ...

  15. Other IWD events

    Afghan, Iraqi events SYDNEY — Around 60 people gathered in Parramatta Town Hall on March 8 for a "Women's rights are human rights" dinner organised by the worker-communist parties of Iraq and Iran. The next night, around 200 members of the ...

  16. IWD organising collectives

    390 January 26, 2000 Adelaide — Connie 8268 3346 or Kathy 8231 6982 Brisbane — Karen 3846 5074 Canberra — Resistance will be travelling to the Sydney rally, phone 6247 2424 Darwin — Lari 8981 4714 Hobart — Kamala 6234 6397 or Sue 6234 7007 Melbourne — Sar ...

  17. IWD: East Timorese women reflect on 1999

    397 March 15, 2000 East Timorese women reflect on 1999 By Vannessa Hearman DILI — Activities to mark International Women's Day on March 8 here included performance art and a public forum on the place of women in the rebuilding process in East Timor. ...

  18. IWD kicks off abortion rights campaign

    By Phuong Dang and Sarah Lantz MELBOURNE — On March 8, International Women's Day, a loud crowd of more 1000 women and male supporters rallied at Melbourne's GPO around the theme "Women united for justice and native title". Nyrell Brook ...

  19. Fijian government bans IWD march

    225 March 27, 1996 By Norm Dixon Women attempting to celebrate International Women's Day in Labasa, on the smaller of Fiji's two main islands, Vanua Levu, had their permission to march revoked by the district officer. The Labasa Women's For ...

  20. Video: Sydney's Kurdish community celebrates International Women's Day

    Peter Boyle Feminism International Women's Day (IWD) Australian Kurdish community Western ...

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