The Collectif 06 and the member associations will not fail to give voice to this day with their characteristic tenacity. Their call is “almost insurrectional”: “Everyone in the streets and on strike to denounce and stop a patriarchal and racist society that exploits, submisses, and kills.”
The rather dogmatic motivations: “The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that women are indispensable to the functioning of society but are constantly made invisible, underpaid, mistreated, and undervalued. We will be in the streets to demand equality, both in wages and socially. We will be in the streets to denounce and put an end to sexist and sexual discrimination and violence. We will be in the streets and on strike on March 6 and 8, like women around the world, to demonstrate and advocate, because without women, the world stops!”
The meetings are scheduled for this afternoon at 2 PM for the March for Women’s Rights, starting from Place de la Libération (Place Charles de Gaulle) towards Place Masséna. And on Monday, March 8, for the “feminist strike and demonstration” with a meeting at 12:30 PM at Place Garibaldi. The cause is noble. Even if it could be supported without interrupting public transport, it would remain so.
International Women’s Day (according to the official UN designation1; in English, International Women’s Day or IWD), also called International Women’s Rights Day in some countries like France, is celebrated on March 8. It is an international day highlighting the fight for women’s rights and notably for reducing inequalities compared to men.
It was finally in 1977 that the United Nations formalized the day, inviting all countries on the planet to celebrate a day in favor of women’s rights. “International Women’s Day” thus became one of the 87 international days recognized or introduced by the UN. It’s a day of demonstrations around the world: an opportunity to take stock of the situation of women in society and to demand more equality in rights. Traditionally, women’s activist groups and associations prepare demonstrations around the world to achieve their demands, improve the condition of women, and celebrate victories and advances.
