Although we should do it every day, today – International Women’s Day – we are taking special care to celebrate and applaud the tireless and inspiring work of women to overcome injustice and for a better tomorrow.

We have come a long way lifting all kinds of barriers and challenging obstacles since 1909, when the first National Woman’s Day was observed in the United States in honour of the 1908 New York garment workers’ strike when tens of thousands of women united to protest against inhuman working conditions. Continue reading →