A guide to spruce up Women’s Day in your city Spend a day luxuriously pampering your body. Dados is offering Mama Mio Maternity Spa Treatments specially created for maintaining and increasing skin elasticity, soothing and strengthening your skin during and after pregnancy. Also on offer are three Bootcamp treatments that utilise serum cream, proven to reduce the appearance of cellulite, water retention and sponginess. And what more can you ask for-for any treatment that you undergo at dados, QR2 is donated to ROTA’s QatarTitian Scholarship Fund. Through these donations, dados is sponsoring students to attend vocational school in Indonesia. To mark the 100th anniversary celebrations of International Woman’s Day, the Woman’s Information Network (www.WINonline.com) will urge
women across the globe to ‘celebrate, commit and connect’. Successful women from different fields will speak about women’s issues today and how we can ‘Enlighten Women’s Minds, Empower Women’s Hearts for a Better World’. You can join hands too! Grand Hyatt Doha and Ambassade de France au Qatar is organising short speeches from the leading women in the fields of business, fashion, education, charity etc. on March 8, 2011, followed by a fashion show and raffle draw. Tickets can be purchased from Grand Hyatt or French Cultural Centre. ‘How Women Work’ Conference is back this year with its second conference on March 10, 2011. It aims to focus on the culture of working women in the 21st century. Carolin Zeitler and her team are all set, once again, to encourage women to step up and shape the future of the country by becoming leaders.
International Woman’s Day:
A brief history
Each year around the world, International Woman’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8. Hundreds of events occur not just on this day but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women. Different themes are chosen each year that reflect global and local gender issues pertaining to women empowerment efforts. Some of the global United Nation themes used for International Women’s Day till date: 2011: Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women 2010: Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all 2009: Women and men united to end violence against women and girls 2008: Investing in Women and Girls 2007: Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls 2006: Women in decision-making 2005: Gender Equality Beyond 2005: Building a More Secure Future 2004: Women and HIV/AIDS 2003: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals 2002: Afghan Women Today: Realities and Opportunities 2001: Women and Peace: Women Managing Conflicts 2000: Women Uniting for Peace 1999: World Free of Violence against Women 1998: Women and Human Rights 1997: Women at the Peace Table 1996: Celebrating the Past, Planning for the Future 1975: First IWD celebrated by the United Nations 2011 March
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