IWD is an occasion women and men join together and call for a better world for women and girls and celebrate their contribution to society.

Acknowledge the neverending task of routine work the women do without pay at home.

IWD activities include meetings, debates, speeches, picnics, breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

IWD is about participation. UN Beijing Platform for Action declares:

"Women's equal participation in decision-making is not only a demand for simple justice or democracy but can also be seen as a necessary condition for women's interests to be taken into account.

Without the active participation of women and the incorporation of women's perspective at all levels of decision-making, the goals of equality, development and peace cannot be achieved."

Think Centre pays tribute to the struggle for women's rights through UN women rights conventions to achieve equality, development and peace. But Women are still discriminated and treated as second-class citizens in many countries. Due to increasing violence, war, and widespread human rights abuses worldwide women's lives and their security remain vulnerable.

Equality should become a reality in our homes as the CEDAW requires states to eliminate discrimination against women in the enjoyment of all civil, political, economic and cultural rights.