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26 March 2021 Friday
 March 8, International Women's Day
8 March is celebrated as "International Women's Day" and the importance and the history of this day are talked with the participants to the online meeting.
Today, 8 March is celebrated as "International Women's Day" in the majority of the world. In fact, for women, March 8 is an endless fight that grows with defeats in order to achieve equality, rights and to become a free individual. In an environment where the woman is ignored, 8 March, which is of great importance, should be celebrated more effectively. March 8 is a fight to be equal in an environment where the strong crush the weak and become stronger by exploiting the labor, dreams, and future of women.
The day was March 8, 1857, and the location was a textile factory in New York, the US where 40.000 textile workers work. The strike started with the demand for rights and equality, but then police actions, the locking of the workers in the factory, and fire of unknown cause... The result; the death of 129 women workers, a funeral with the participation of thousands of people. The economic crisis occurred in 1908; over working hours, low wages, environments without occupational health and safety, other negativities... During these negativities, the fire of 1857 was remembered, and  "the Great Women's March" is held on March 8, 1908. On March 25, 1911, another fire occurred at the Triangle Shirt Factory in New York, resulting in the deaths of 123 female and 23 male workers, most of whom had recently migrated to the USA from Germany, Italy, Ireland and Eastern Europe. However, the fire and losses in 1857 had become the birthday for "International Working Women's Day".
German woman worker Clara Zetkin, who attended the "International Workers Congress" in Paris in 1889, presented a report on women and urged women to unite. During the "International Socialist Women's Conference" held in Copenhagen on 26-27 August 1910, Clara Zetkin proposed to women participants from 17 countries to celebrate one day every year as "International Women's Day" and made this decision come true. After this decision, the first "International Woman Day" was celebrated on 18 March 1911 in the 40th Years of the Paris commune. After this date, celebrations were held on the same dates every year.
During the "3rd International Women's Conference" in Moscow in 1921, March 8 was accepted as "International Women's Day" as a result of the effective leading of Clara Zetkin.
According to the decisions taken at International Women's Conference, March 8 "International Women's Day" was celebrated for the first time in Turkey in 1921 - with little celebration until 1975. After 1975 was declared by the United Nations as the "World Women's Year", the celebrations continued more effectively until 1980. In the years between 1980-1984, the celebrations could not be held due to prohibitions. After 1984, celebrations are held regularly every year. 56 years after the decision had taken in Moscow, the United Nations decided on March 16, 1977, to celebrate March 8 as "International Women's Day". Today, March 8 is an public holiday in 33 countries, the fight of women for the demand for equality continues in many countries.



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