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Email: vip@news1.co.il A sad year [בינג AI]
The 20th century saw significant progress in women’s rights, with an emphasis on the right to vote, education and integration into the labor market. Women’s organizations at the United Nations have failed to condemn serious gender-based attacks, such as those that occurred in Gaza and Afghanistan. Women’s Day 2024 should be a wake-up call for international organizations to act decisively against ideologies that oppress women. International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 worldwide. About 115 years ago, movements Women who worked to give women equal voting rights sought a day to mark a day when all women in the world could unite on the basis of the principle of equality. It is customary to look back on the 20th century as the era of polarized ideologies such as liberalism and communism. Looking back, these ideologies shared common ideas such as promoting the status of women , encouraging women’s education and their integration into the labor market. In the 20th century, women became a central player in the political debate about the proper social order. International Women’s Day in 2024 should serve as a spotlight that illuminates the darkness that covers the lack of hand of the international organizations in dealing with societies that promote repressive ideologies towards women.
In the mid-1970s, the United Nations decided to declare March 8 as “International Women’s Day”. At the same time, it was decided to promote the Convention on the Prevention of Discrimination against Women in all its forms in the UN General Assembly. The Convention was adopted in 1979. Today, one of the most important bodies in the world is the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). This body works to spread the promotion of the status of women among the countries of the world.i
Apparently, the UN committee reaps successes in its hundreds of reports and demonstrates how the status of women should be promoted in various countries of the world. These reports call for the granting of equal legal rights to women, to encourage their integration in the education systems, and to promote cultural messages about women having the free right to express themselves as they see fit .
The year 2024 is a bleak year for the celebration of women’s rights. Women’s organizations at the United Nations hesitated and delayed in condemning the gender-based attack carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Hundreds of women were sexually assaulted, abused, kidnapped and murdered primarily because they were women. But the organization chose weak language that obscures the extent of the systematicity and cruelty of this attack However, the problem is not only the Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, which for about 17 years has used an Islamic doctrine to brainwash society regarding the status of women.
Afghanistan currently has about 42 million inhabitants. In 1964, the parliament in Afghanistan granted equal rights to women in the country. Today, after the return of the Taliban to power in the country, there is not even a single woman in the country’s parliament. It was forbidden for girls to study in high schools and for women to study in universities. According to a recently published international report, women are excluded from the public sphere. ii In Somalia, which has a population of 18 million, girls are given the name of women and married after they get their first period. In Iran, where 88 million people live, the headscarf protest brought millions to the streets. For the regime, the liberation of the women is the sign of the release of the hold it has on the population which is severely oppressed.
Even if international organizations, led by women’s organizations, did not come out explicitly against ideologies that promote the oppression of women and their removal from the public sphere, March 8 would be considered a meaningless gesture for millions of oppressed women in the world.
i. Chen Kertcher & Ornat Turin, ‘Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries, The International Journal of Human Rights, 27(2): 219-237. Link: ‘Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries: The International Journal of Human Rights: Vol 27, No 2 – Get Access (tandfonline.com)
ii. Tim Stickings, ‘Women and girls ‘erased from public life’, The National News, 1 March 2024. Retrieved from:
Women and girls being ‘erased from public life’ in Afghanistan (thenationalnews.com)
The author is a doctor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies-Political Science, Ariel University Date: 03/07/2024 | Updated: 03/07/2024 Chen Kercher
International Women’s Day – a meaningless gesture?
Especially on International Women’s Day we must stop hypocrisy, as it is time to look directly in the eyes and understand what a woman really is. The same one who is said to be behind every man’s success, but actually stands not behind but in front. This is about the goal-oriented woman, who has been managing the essence and roots of our lives for many generations, strengthening and strengthening the next generation, whose eyes are constantly open to the family unit, who sees clearly both the details and what is about to come tomorrow, and not just the general picture and what will be in the future Ten or twenty years (which we men love to predict).
My mother did not know what Women’s Day was, she had not heard of this day, she did not mention it nor did she celebrate it. For my mother every day, the whole day was Women’s Day.
International Women’s Day
More and more women in today’s world still fail to exhaust themselves due to growing machoism, which oppresses both their body and spirit – this is the sad conclusion of a large-scale study, conducted in preparation for International Women’s Day in Germany.
In preparation for International Women’s Day, let’s stop being hypocrites, look the truth in the eyes and understand what a woman really is. The one who is said to be behind every man’s success, but actually stands not behind but in front. This is about the goal-oriented woman, who has been managing the essence and roots of our lives for many generations, strengthening and strengthening the next generation, whose eyes are constantly open to the family unit, who sees clearly both the details and what is about to come tomorrow, and not just the general picture and what will be in the future Ten or twenty years (which we men love to predict).
Merav Arad Yoav Yitzchak Idan Yosef