Mar 06

WDO Hosts 2025 International Women’s Day Press Conference

Women of Diverse Origins Marks IWD 2025 with Press Conference

The press conference will feature speeches from women who are leaders, organizers, and activists from various communities and groups, representing a wide range of women’s struggles and resistances worldwide.
Speakers will include workers from Amazon and from the migrant and health sectors. We will also hear about women’s issues in Indigenous communities, Palestine, Haiti, the Philippines, and Sudan. Women of Diverse Origins (WDO) will also deliver a statement.
The press will have the opportunity to interview or ask questions of the speakers after their brief presentations on various topics such as housing, health, migration, refugees, labor, colonialism, fascism, militarism, violence, and the impacts of wars of aggression.
This year, the rallying cry of women is louder than ever: women taking back our power, taking back our world, and resisting patriarchy, capitalist exploitation, wars of aggression, colonialism, and violence.
We look forward to your presence. For further information, please feel free to reach out to the Press Conference Committee.

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