- International Women’s Day, which was called International Working Women’s Day in the past, is a commemoration that is held every year on March 8. The celebration and meaning of March 8 has been different in different societies.
This day started in Optada as a political event among the social parties of America, Germany and Eastern Europe, but later it was integrated into the culture of many countries.
The seeds of this story were planted in 1908, when 15,000 women marched in New York and demanded shorter working hours, more pay and the right to vote.
The American Social Party announced the first International Women’s Day a year after this march.
Meanwhile, the idea of the globalization of this day came from a woman named Zetkin.
She made the first proposal in 1910 at the World Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen. In this conference, which was attended by 100 women from 17 countries, they all unanimously agreed to his proposal.
Since 1977, the United Nations has recognized this day as the day of women’s rights and international peace. On this day, the women of the world remember their successes and achievements regardless of their different intellectual, ideological, ethnic, national, cultural and political tendencies.
Over time, this day has gradually lost its political flavor in most parts of the world and has become an occasion for men to express their love for women.
But in Afghanistan, after two decades of freedom, this is the second year that after the Taliban came back to power, women under the control of this group were deprived of all their human rights and kept at home. They are even deprived of their basic rights and spend the most bitter and blackest days of their lives under the shadow of this group.
Blocking of schools, universities, bathrooms, sports clubs, educational centers and entertainment places is one of the small things on the history and painful fate of the Afghan women’s society in this era and we have almost reached zero point, at the point where women In misogynist male thoughts, they cannot even make room for accepting themselves as free and capable human beings. This phenomenon is a reality that cannot be ignored.
Unfortunately, the situation of women in the Afghan society in the new conditions of the Taliban after the fall of the republic has revived the suffocating and dark atmosphere of the past of this group, and they can no longer participate in the social, political, cultural, and artistic fields like in their bitter past.
Imprisoning women’s rights activists and torturing them, silencing the voices of women and protestors, depriving them of decision-making, mysterious murders, and recently postponing the exit exam (Medical Council) of girls are among other things that make women more vulnerable than before. He is mentally hurt.
The sum of the mentioned factors and fields has caused women in our country to suffer from depression, homesickness and even a large number of them have ended their lives during this period.
According to the women’s movement of Afghanistan itself, which is not affiliated to any political, party or ethnic faction, it asks the international community to put pressure on the Taliban and demand the lifting of restrictions. which the Taliban recently imposed on women, they want to guarantee the right to work, education, equal rights, the right to political, economic, and social activities and to end all forms of discrimination and violence against women. So that Afghan women do not become victims of proxy wars in which they had no role.
