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international women's day

International Women's Day is marked around the world on 8 March as an occasion for the celebration of the political, social and economic empowerment of women, and for the reassertion of women's rights worldwide.

Kasia Boddy celebrates the brief reign of screwball's madcap women
Cristian Mungiu makes humane, engaging art from the bleakness of a young woman's illegal abortion
Saudi Arabia's women and young people are creating new spaces of personal freedom
US-led international HIV/Aids policies are discriminating against those they need to help most  
International Women's Day is a moment to press the case for women to be at the heart of peace-building
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