International Women's Day marked in Moldova
12:19 | 08.03.2019 Category: Social
Chisinau, 8 March /MOLDPRES/- The International Women's Day is celebrated today in Moldova, along with several countries in the world.
The International Women's Day is celebrated annually on 8 March to commemorate both women's social achievements, policies and economic conditions, as well as the discrimination and violence which still is in many parts of the world. International Women's Day was adopted in 1977 through a UN General Assembly resolution.
Women's Day was celebrated for the first time on 28 February 1909, in New York, in memory of a strike of a women's union, a strike that took place in 1908. In August 1910, on the occasion of the Socialist International reunified in Copenhagen, it was proposed to celebrate the International Women’s Day. The International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time the following year, on 19 March 1911. Since 1913, women in Russia celebrated women's day on the last Sunday in February.
On 8 March, the International Women's Day is celebrated in 60 states, in some countries being declared by law a day off. Usually, women and girls get presents, flowers.
