8 March International Working Women's Day

Dear Women Workers,

Today, as we mark 8 March International Working Women's Day, celebrated across the world, we strengthen with great pride and hope our struggle for equality, freedom and justice. Today is a turning point at which we raise our voices more strongly for women's rights and take further steps on the road to justice and equality.

Even as women workers face more difficulties with each passing day, we resolutely continue our struggle against sexism, oppression and injustice in every field. We continue to stand side by side with our women who confront painful realities — mobbing, harassment, bullying and violence — in the workplace, on the street and at home. But we know this struggle has no expiry date; each passing day calls for more solidarity, more action and more determination.

We continue our struggle so that women workers can claim their own labour, advance equally and freely in working life, and receive justice and equality through the natural stages of life such as pregnancy, birth and childcare. We remind everyone once again of the steps that must be taken in the public sector: bringing nursery services and benefits up to humane standards, expanding affirmative action for women, and removing merit-defying obstacles to promotion.

In this context, we will strengthen our stance against problems such as mobbing and fight them with determination. We will raise our voices at every moment, every hour, in defence of working women's right to life. We will carry out awareness-raising educational work to prevent femicide, and we will press on without pause in defence of job security.

We must show zero tolerance for acts of violence against women, and act together so that legal processes are followed meticulously and the public is properly informed.

Today we must unite to end gender discrimination in the workplace and to recognise the value of women's labour. To support women's struggle and act together for equality, we must stand with women in every sphere of life. Because together we are strong and determined to build a fairer, more equal world.

Long live our women! Come, shoulder to shoulder, let us carry on the struggle for a better world.