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Today we are celebrating the International Women’s Day–for the 97th time!
Here are the major milestones of that led to this annual event:

• 1908 -15,000 women marched through New York City to demand for better working conditions and the right to vote.

• 1909 – The first US National Women’s Day was held on 28 February of this year.

• 1910. In an international meeting in Copenhagen, an International Women’s Day (IWD) was proposed and unanimously approved.

• 1911 –IWD was celebrated for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on 19 March. More countries followed suit in the years to come.

Today, IWD is celebrated all over the world to honor the women’s rights movement. Starting with the struggle for women’s basic rights to work, vote, be educated, hold public office and end discrimination in the early 1900s to the feminists movement of the 1970s and up to now, IWD and all the organizations supporting it are doing their best to protect those hard-worn rights and to help women who are still suppressed up to this day.

To celebrate IWD, 589 different events will be organized in 52 countries this coming Saturday. To find out about 2008 IWD events, some of which may be happening near where you live, click here.

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