International Womens Day

March the 8th is International Womens Day.

There is a great presentation on the Amnesty International site here about women under fire.

The beating of women demonstrators celebrating International Womens Day by Turkish Security forces (shown here) highlights the need to campaign for women's rights.

I have to say I wasn't particularly impressed by the British government minister on Radio 4's The World at One ptogramme yesterday, who basically said that it was a bad thing but it is all over now, and won't happen again so don't worry about it.