প্রকাশ: 08/03/2022
International Women's Day is being observed on Tuesday
across the country as elsewhere in the world with a call for building a
sustainable world giving priority to gender equality.
This year, theme of the day is “gender equality today
for a sustainable tomorrow”.
Different women, social and political organizations have
taken separate programmes to observe the International Women's Day.
On the eve of the day, President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages, greeting all women across the
world.
In their messages, they termed the day's theme ‘Teksai
Agameer Jonnya, Gender Samotai Aj Agraganna’ as time befitting in the current
perspective and wished success of all programmes of the day.
President Md Abdul Hamid in his message said the achievement
in empowering women over the last 50 years has introduced Bangladesh as a role
model in the world.
He said the present government has been implementing massive
programmes to prevent all kinds of violence on women, along with establishing
women rights, spreading education for them and empowering women to establish
gender parity.
The womenfolk are keeping their footprints in all sectors,
including politics, trade and business and job, without any restriction now, he
added.
The US-based NGO Global Summit of Women honored Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina with the Global Women's Leadership Award in 2018 for her
outstanding leadership in advancing women education and women entrepreneurs in
Bangladesh, Asia and Asia-pacific region, he said, adding that the premier also
received a special memento titled "Tree of Peace" from UNESCO in
recognition to her outstanding contribution to the promotion of girls' and
women's education.
"I hope that women-men would work together to make
development sustainable in all sector for building a happy-prosperous
Bangladesh," he said.
In her message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the Awami
League government has been working to ensure equal participation of women and
men in all its programmes with a view to building a ‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt by
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu.
She said one of the major achievements of Bangladesh in the
last 50 years is to making significant progress in empowering women by reducing
the gender inequality. To maintain this trend, the government has attached
priority to ensuring food, health and education for women from grassroots level
to make the development sustainable, she added.
The women are now playing a vital role in different areas,
including politics, judiciary, administration, education, health, armed forces
and law enforcing agencies due to the time befitting and pragmatic measures of
the government, she said.
The premier said that the greatest Bengali of all time,
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formed the Women's
Rehabilitation Board in 1972 with the aim of rehabilitating and empowering
women who had suffered in the great war of independence.
Bangabandhu ensured the equality of women in all spheres of national life in
the constitution, she added.
She hoped that with the joint efforts of women and men
Bangladesh achieved independence of the country, implementation of Vision-2041
would help build a hungry-poverty free prosperous Bangladesh as dreamt by
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu.
In observance of the day, Samajik Protirodh Committee, a
platform of 66 women, human rights and development organizations, will bring
out a procession and hold discussion and cultural programmes at the Central
Shaheed Minar at 3pm tomorrow. Bangladesh Mahila Parishad President Dr Fawjia
Moslem will chair the programme.
‘Amee Pari,’ an alliance for resisting family violence, will
carry out a campaign at 12,01 minute today. Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) will
organize a colourful rally on its premises at 10:00 am today.
International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8
every year. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights.
After the Socialist Party of America organised a Women's Day
on February 28, 1909 in New York, the 1910 International Socialist Women's
Conference suggested a Women's Day be held annually.
After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March
8 became a national holiday there.
The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist
movement and communist countries until it was adopted in 1975 by the United
Nations.
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