March 8th worldwide has been significant, historic and memorable since 1911 when the first ever International Women’s Day was celebrated. It has been set aside as a day to celebrate Women’s economic, political and social achievements all over the world regardless of their diverse cultures and political views. Women are not just part of the world, they are central to its rhythmic social order. Looking back in retrospect, they have been seen in the last century as social, political, cultural, and corporate activists using their solidarity mechanism to chart the women's cause in the world, especially in the areas of human trafficking, girl-child education, domestic violence, gender equality amongst other things. In most recent time, there has been much emphasis on the realization of the women agenda with the 2016 theme of Gender Equality envisioned for 2030. This is consolidating the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the 2014 session on the status of women, and by extension the Millennium Development Goals. The event which started in Europe in the early 20th century still holds strong to its political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide in the midst of celebration with the hopes of liberation.
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