According to information from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), March 8 has been commemorated for 43 years in order to call for unity towards gender equality and the empowerment of all the girls and women of the world.
In Denmark, 1910, hundreds of participants gathered at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women and decided to organize an annual women's day with the aim of strengthening their struggle to obtain suffrage.
However, it was not until 1945 that the Charter of the United Nations was installed as the first international agreement to consolidate the principle . . .
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