Scottish Women's Aid will be joining a global show of unity with other women around the world on 8 March 2010 in celebration of International Women's Day.
We're excited to be taking part in 'Join me on the Bridge' — a global initiative promoting peace for women across the world.
Thousands of women will stand together in Congo and neighboring Rwanda to demand peace and development. Supporting them in their call for the war's end will be women in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Sudan and Nigeria, as well as in the United States and the United Kingdom.
SWA will be joining the gathering in a celebration of the strength and solidarity displayed by women internationally. We'll also be there in recognition of the fact that, while there is still work to be done on making women and children in Scotland safe, some countries are still to deliver the levels of equality for women that we are lucky to have here.
Lily Greenan, manager of SWA, is in New York attending the UN Commission on the Status of Women as an observer at the 15th anniversary review of the Beijing Platform for Action. She will join delegates from the UN event and women and men from across New York on the Brooklyn Bridge at noon on 8 March.
In Edinburgh, we will join women and men who support this global call for peace and hope on the bridge in West Princes Street Gardens (details and map below).
We will be filming and photographing both events and will link our record of the event with video and photographic images from Bridge events around the world.
This is a really exciting opportunity to unite with women and men across the globe on International Women's Day to say no to war and yes to peace and hope.
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Anne Frank, Diarist (1947)