Perhaps the 1995 International Beijing conference on women rights relative to equality and equity needs rekindling in a world witnessing a wave of increase in abuse against rights of women. These abuses, even against the backdrop of an enlightened global community, has not attracted the needed condemnation, and where criticisms have been voiced, they are drowned in a chorus of few pedestrian gains recorded elsewhere.
The celebration of the day is in recognition of the tireless efforts of women to global peace, stability, and gender parity. At the heart of the campaign is bridging gender disparity which accounts for several acts of discrimination perpetrated against women especially in developing economies.
The theme, accelerate action, speaks to the urgent call to mobilize global action to stamp out ignoble acts perpetrated against women everywhere in the world.
Women everywhere should speak up and out against the unfair global economic order disproportionately skewed to favor the male gender, fringing women who remain in majority numerically, and in most cases, are saddled with the administration of homes and the upbringing of children, often, under cash-strapped circumstances. Women leaders, who have braved the odds to impact meaningfully on society, must be celebrated.
Breast Care International and her sister Institution, Peace and Love Hospital, on this auspicious occasion, salute all women particularly those who scaled national, cultural, ethnic and economic barriers to achieve national and global stardom. I am convinced we would not reduce this celebration to sloganeering. here at Breast Care International, our firm and avowed resolution is to secure the health of women, their socio-economic conditions notwithstanding, for their meaningful inclusion and contribution to economic development.
We can attest to the fact that a healthy female population is a firm guarantee to a happy home. Let us use this occasion to congratulate the First Female Vice President of our dear nation, Ghana – Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyeman and wish her a Happy IWD.
Conversely, when women are afflicted with conditions like breast cancer which we see every day here, it leads to the breakdown of homes, affecting cohesion and the education of children. Public policy interventions in furtherance of the good of women should be given the necessary boost, while the campaign against abuses should be consistent and not few and far between.
Let us all, in unison, work to liberate ourselves, by Accelerating Action for our own good and for the commonwealth of nations.
WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY AND A JOYOUS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY.