National Nutrition Council MIMAROPA joins the world in celebrating the International Women's Day. 

Annually, the world celebrates International Women’s Day every 8th of March. This day honors the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, raise awareness on women’s equality and urge for an accelerated gender parity. 

It was in 1911 when the International Women's Day was honored for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland where more than one million people joined the campaign to fight for women's rights to work, to vote, to be trained, to hold public office and to end discrimination. 

Since then, significant improvement on women’s rights and society’s thoughts on women has been seen. However, the fight against inequality and discrimination is still there. 

“Choose to Challenge” – this year’s campaign encourages everyone to call out gender biases and inequality and to choose to celebrate women’s achievements. Through this challenge, we can strive for change and build an inclusive world for all. 

We are sought to join the world in this year’s celebration. Show support and solidarity to the #IWD2021 campaign this year. Raise your hand high to show you're in and that you commit to #ChoosetoChallenge and call out inequality. 

(BLVMEstrella) 

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International Women's Day. Accessed from: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/