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International Women’s Rights Day 2024
Today is Women's Rights Day!
“International Women’s Day” for the United Nations (UN), or “International Women’s Rights Day” for certain countries including France, is celebrated on March 8. Celebrated since 1975 and formalized two years later by the UN, it focuses on the fight for women’s rights. Explanations.
Why a Women’s Rights Day?
For its 2024 edition, the theme of Women’s Rights Day is “Investing in women: accelerating the pace”. A single theme that in fact covers several themes to be considered for joint action:
- Investing in women: a question of human rights,
- Put an end to poverty,
- Implement gender-sensitive financing,
- Moving to a green economy and a caring society,
- Support feminist change agents.
This year, as in previous years, March 8th is an opportunity to mobilize and raise awareness of the situation of women’s rights around the world. Rights that are far from guaranteed, as demonstrated by the inclusion of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (VTP) in the French Constitution on March 5, 2024, to prevent this freedom, the fruit of a long struggle, from disappearing one day.
Women’s Rights Day: what does La Chaîne de l’Espoir do?
Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3), one of the seventeen goals established by UN member states and brought together in the Agenda 2030, aims to ensure the health and well-being of all through two main axes:
- Improving reproductive, maternal and child health,
- Reducing the main communicable, non-communicable, environmental and mental illnesses.
La Chaîne de l’Espoir also helps women through its maternal health programs. This is the case in Afghanistan, for example, where we work with women in displaced persons’ camps who have gynecological needs. In concrete terms, this means detection, prevention, awareness-raising and, where necessary, referral to the Kabul Women’s and Children’s Pavilion. Adjacent to our hospital, theInstitut Médical Français pour la Mère et l’Enfant, which has the only maternity ward in the country, this structure managed by La Chaîne de l’Espoir offers free accommodation and care to women whose state of health requires medical attention.
