Celebrating Asian Women’s Day – A Day of Our Own for Our Rights and Future

This August 8, we mark Asian Women’s Day – the beginning of a tradition that brings Asian women’s voices and struggles in sharper focus and celebrates their gains with renewed commitment to fight for the realization of their rights and a better life.

Inspired by International Women’s Day, March 8, we remember those who resolutely and courageously struggled before us, enabling our enjoyment today of greater freedoms than before. There is no greater homage than to keep this spirit alive wherever we are, by carrying on the fight where women remain subjugated, discriminated and exploited.

Here in Asia, millions of women remain impoverished and deprived of many basic rights such as the rights to food, decent shelter, health, water and sanitation, healthy environments and sustainable energy. Discrimination against women continues to manifest in many ways and in various spaces, including laws and policies, violence and abuse within and outside the home and in multiplying burdens of unpaid work and caring labors.

Click Here to read the statement released by Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development