Happy international women's day

[Conservative_Girl]

salama calaykum dhamaantiin

 

Maxay u soo kordhisaa dabaal dega maalintani Haweenkeena soomaaliyeed?

[Qac Qaac]

wax bana

[Blessed]

Salaams,

 

Well, sitting here and looking at it from my comfortable life in London; I would naturally echo Qac Qaac's 'wax bana'.

 

However, logic dictates that we look beyond our subjective views of the situation. For sometime, I've been following the activities of our sisters in Somalia and it's apparent that they have been making full use of the support that is made available to them by international aid organisation who spearhead the International Women's Day 'celebrations'

 

 

SOMALIA: Campaign against FGM launched on Women's Day

NAIROBI, 8 Mar 2004 (IRIN) - On the occasion of International Women's Day, a campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been launched throughout Somalia, where an estimated 98 percent of all women have undergone the ritual.

 

The campaign is being led by four networks of Somali women’s organisations, namely the Coalition of Grassroots Women's Organization (COGWO), IIDA Women's Development Organization (IIDA means celebrate in Somali), We Are Women Activists (WAWA) and NAGAAD (roughly translated in Somali as 'Stay Rooted'). The networks represent nearly 90 grass-roots women's groups, Maryan Abdulle Qawane of COGWO told IRIN.

 

The campaign was launched simultaneously on Monday in Hargeysa, the capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, Bosaso, the commercial capital of the self-styled autonomous region of Puntland, and in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as well as in other towns.

 

Check the following link 4 more information...

SOMALIA: Campaign against FGM launched on Women's Day

 

And...

SOMALILAND

'Peace Building, Women's Participation In Decision-Making In The Country'

was the theme of International Women's Day in Somaliland. UNIFEM

participated in the official opening of the "Multi Purpose Empowerment

Centre" in Arabsiyo, with local authorities, farmers, the Nordic Press Team

visiting Somaliland and UNDP. A basketball tournament with women from the

Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps was also held to celebrate the

occasion.

UNIFEM Currents - International Women's Day Special Issue

[StarGazer]

Thnkz for the positive info Ameenah. It made me

[Khayr]

Salaamz,

I remember last yr. when they had women's international day down here, the women gathered around to celeberate that day in downtown but were demonstrating against the iraq war as a collective.

 

So some of the ladies were angry about that and complained and said that 'this ain't Iraqi day' and you could tell that they were lesbianis (butch and very manly looking women).

 

They were basically there to "PICK UP" other ladies and this 'Iraq' thing was getting in their way.

 

Anyways, don't we have enough women's days during the year like-PAYDAY!