42. Women Day - International

In Cambodia on that 100th Anniversary of the Day there were celebrations everywhere. It is a Holiday. In Phnom Penh, it was celebrated the day before, at the Peace Building, and reported by local paper showing PM Hun Sen kissing his wife Bun Rany, in joy. SRP organized a conference few days earlier. The NGOs and others, lead by the Cambodian Women Movement Organisation, celebrated in the outskirts, their request to do it in front of Wat Botum was turned down. LICADHO provided some reliefs to the 458 of the 941 women prisoners (with 10 children living with them) at Prey Sar. The woman representative in the National Assembly, Mu SokHua, whose legal case was in limbo, was waiting in the side line for her immunity to be restored... There should be campaign to help her.

To know more on this International Women Day, here is the story:

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men.

International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday.

1913-1914

As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.
1917
With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.
Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike.