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Celebrating International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day - on March 8 every year - honors the incredible social, economic, cultural, and political accomplishments by women around the world. Starting in 1909, the UN declared the first Women’s Day to recognize the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York, where for the first time, women laborers protested against inhumane working conditions. The UN...

Gabriela Seplovich and Shahnaz Radjy | Mar 7, 2016
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