International Women’s Day March 8,2025
The campaign theme for International Women’s Day this year is to # Accelerate Action . Step forward in solidarity for International Women’s Day (IWD) 2025 on March 8 to help #AccelerateAction. At the current rate of progress, it will take 134 years, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity in 2158, according to data from the World Economic Forum.
WOMEN an Internationally acclaimed film by Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand, is available to view by CFUW Welland and District to celebrate International Women’s Day,
WOMEN gathers the stories of 2000 women from 50 countries to examine the state of womanhood in modern society.
As part of the 16 Days of Activism for the Elimination of Violence against Women, CFUW Welland and District display red dresses as an art installation to acknowledge and bring tribute to the many Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) throughout the district.
The red dresses represent the hundreds-perhaps thousands of North American Indigenous Women and Girls who have been murdered or disappeared during the last 4 decades. Based on the original REDdress movement by founder/creator Jamie Black, a Metis woman from Winnipeg, who wanted the empty dresses floating from hangers in tree branches, to remind us all of the women who should have been wearing them. We want to draw attention to this devastating loss, as another tragic example of Violence against Women that must end.
We wish to thank both the cities of Welland and Port Colborne for their support and permission to hold the displays. Appreciation is also extended to the Indigenous community and the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre for their encouragement and support.
We welcome anyone who wishes to add a red dress to the display to do so, and we encourage the public to view the displays and be reminded of the on-going violence towards women that must stop.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls. The Campaign was started at the inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991, as a strategy to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls.
The 16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence campaign starts November 25 which is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and concludes on December 10 which is International Human Rights Day.
In support, the City of Welland will light the Main St Bridge on Wednesday, November 25th, 2024 in ORANGE.The International campaign utilizes the colour orange to represent a brighter future, free from gender-based violence.
Please join members of CFUW wearing ORANGE at 5pm Wednesday, November 25th, 2024 on the EAST side of the bridge to safely acknowledge the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism.
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