- March 8th, 2012
International Women’s Day
- nickmorgan
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Thursday 8th March is International Women’s Day 2012. Events were held around the UK and in many countries to mark the occasion, with a focus on celebrating achievements and challenging discrimination and stereotypes based on gender. There’s plenty of global citizenship education opportunities around this theme, such as discussion about jobs, careers and roles in society. Among the activities taking place in Scotland for IWD are these:
The Take One Action film festival honoured IWD with special showings of the film ‘Bitter Seeds’, which tells the story of a young Indian woman and her efforts to publicise problems with agricultural production and globalisation in her community.
The Scottish Parliament held a gathering of women to share a discussion about the value and importance of lifelong learning.
And a BBC Scotland news piece reports on the launch of a project to celebrate the life of Mary Barbour, a Glaswegian community activist.
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