Here's a few links for you:
- The official International Women's Day 2009 site
- All about International Women's Day on Wikipedia
- A graphic and textual history of International Women's Day (links through to the next page are at the bottom of the page)
- I couldn't find many NZ events, but here's what I did discover.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0T3bbj9Gxc
Unfortunately I couldn't watch the whole of that video Anon, but what I saw was interesting - for those not sure about making with the clicky, it's a BBC World excerpt, a bit over 2 minutes long, about the loss of popularity of International Women's Day in parts of Central Asia which were previously in the USSR. Some women there see the origins of March 8th as a Soviet public holiday as counter to their religion (Islam), and are thus rejecting it.
Let's try making that link clickable..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0T3bbj9Gxc
I keep forgetting that blogger doesn't automatically do that when presented with a url...
Aside,
this and this might be of some interest to you.
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