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NEHAWU Statement, 7 March, 2015 International Woman's Day "The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph." Thomas Sankara, African revolutionary NEHAWU wishes the women of the world a wonderful International Women's Day on the 8th of March 2015, under this year's theme, Make it Happen. The International Women's Day has been taking place for the last 104 years to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women around the world. On this day we salute the heroines, who are millions of woman taking care of their families, raising the next generation and also earning a living under difficult conditions and patriarchal societies. The attitudes towards women have changed over the years and so many strides have been made to emancipate women from the shackles of oppression. We cannot though afford to be complacent in the struggle for social and economic emancipation of women. It has been proven all around the world that the empowerment of women has been a cure for poverty and has transformed societies. Societies that have given women some power to decide for themselves whether they have kids / families or not, have changed for the better. Unfortunately some religious and cultural doctrines have continued to imprison women to a cycle of poverty by insisting on some antiquated dogmas. The Neoliberal policies that have been broadly adopted across the world have reinforced the class and gender oppression, through their persistent offensive against social security and reproductive rights, workers' wages and conditions of work; including casualisation, labour broking, etc. Women across the world are still waging relentless battles against patriarchal and sexist attitudes around the world and there are still oppressive regimes that treat women like second class citizens. Woman are being exploited and enslaved by ruthless capitalists and are also still trafficked and sexually abused especially those from the poor and vulnerable backgrounds. Very few countries and workplaces have embraced the principle of "equal pay for equal work". In a number of conflict zones and war torn countries millions of women are victims of heinous crimes including murder. NEHAWU re-affirms its commitment to fight for the full emancipation of women and challenges governments and humankind to ensure that women are not victims of commercial and sexual exploitation, forced marriages and domestic abuse. Issued by NEHAWU Secretariat Office For further information, please contact: Sizwe Pamla (NEHAWU Media Liaison Officer) at 011 833 2902 - 082 558 5962 or email: [email protected] Visit NEHAWU website: www.nehawu.org.za -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
