International Women’s Day 2020 being observed today

International Women’s Day 2020 is being observed across the world today (Sunday) to recognise the contribution of various women across the world in various fields.

UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka declared 2020 as the year of gender equality and called on everyone to remove the barriers to inequality between both sexes.

“We don’t have an equal world at the moment and women are angry and concerned about the future”, she said. “They are radically impatient for change. It’s an impatience that runs deep, and it has been brewing for years”.

The United Nations first celebrated International Women’s Day during International Women’s Year in 1975. By 1977, the UN and its member states declared March 8 as an official day for women’s rights and world peace.

The day will be observed in Pakistan as well with different seminars, conferences and events in the country to highlight the significance of the role of women in the society.