(Foto: A. Panjeta/Sarajevo-x.com)The CURE Foundation organized, on the occasion of March 8, International Women’s Day, a protest march in Sarajevo, to raise the awareness about status of women’s rights in BiH. Foundation representatives noted that the aims was to raise the awareness of women that they are equal members of the society who want equal, not special rights.

Several dozens of women started the march in front of the National Museum, passed in front of the Building of BiH Institutions, through Marijin Dvor square, Titova and Ferhadija streets, to the Oslobođenje-Alija Izetbegović Square. The gathering continued with a performance by Lejla Merdžanić - MC Eja, and demonstration of self-defense techniques by the girls from Travnik karate club.

With the exception of former Yugoslav republics and some socialist countries, the International Women’s Day is marked all over the world with mass demonstrations with demands for greater rights for women and respect for the rights they already achieved through struggle.

In these parts, the tradition to mark the day with restaurant parties and flowers continued from the socialist regime, during which March 8 lost all ideological charge and turned into its own opposition, with little, if any discussion of right of women, the violence they suffer and mobbing in the work-place. (Source: Sarajevo-x.com)