----- International Women,s Day : Task Before Us International Women's Day has been observed on 8th March in Dhaka and elsewhere around the world with a fresh vow to end violence against women and girls. On this day in 1857, female workers of a sewing factory in USA New York got into a fight with the police while protesting a 12-hour workday, low pay and unhealthy condition at workplaces. Later, the day was declared International Women's Day during the second International Socialist Women's Conference in Copenhagen in 1910 following a proposal by German Socialist Movement leader Klara Jatekin. The theme 'Women and men united to end violence against women and girls' has been chosen to observe the day in Bangladesh where millions have fallen victim to the social scourge over the years. The president, Zillur Rahman, and the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, have issued separate messages on the occasion. A number of local women rights groups and non-government organisations including Witness, a young Women's Group and Protection Of Hijab, Bangladesh have observed the day in Dhaka. We feel that violence against women have continued despite progress in education, development in other fields.One reason in our view is ignoring morality in our education and neglecting certain evils like internet pornography, prostitution, decent dress code. We feel pornography is a major cause for present day violent young people. Why the world should not prohibit effectively the internet pornography in particular? Similarly indecent dress provokes man, this realization is necessary. There is need for recognition of this point, at the least a few no's in the matter of dress should be accepted by humanity such as no sleeveless dress, no half pants, no tight dress.It is very difficult to eradicate violence without corrective steps.We hope this matter should be considered by all thinkers and governments.We believe in all legitimate rights of women and their un-hindered progress and we ask all to work for this.
