Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities : Progress for All

      This year, the United Nations (UN) focuses attention on the fact that the respect of women’s rights and the guarantee of opportunities lead to significant advances in social and economic development. Under the theme “Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all,” International Women’s Day underlines the need for governments, civil society, women’s organizations, the private sector, the media, the entire UN system, and individual women and men to join forces in making important changes to policies, programs, attitudes and behaviours to ensure that women fully participate in economic and social life.

     Genuine equality between women and men, girls and boys can only be realised in the process of a just, fair and humane transformation of our society as a whole. There's need for us to unite and enable women to take their rightful place in production and political activity to improve their economic and political status.There is need to educate ourselves and others to take a more correct view of women and to actively redress the injustices done to women in all our institutions - the Church, state and family.