Women of Color Day - March 1

March is Women's Month in U.S. History. March 8 marks International Women's Day and March 1 celebrates Women of Color Day designed to mark the achievements of non - white women and their contribution to the world in every way possible: in science, history, warfare, work and more. Women are never inferior: they struggle, demonstrate, run around, do not give up and break through in many different areas.

In honor of Women of Color Day, here are some stories about women who broke through in history, even though their starting point was lower both because they were women and because of their skin color:

Mae Carol Jemison, born October 17, 1956, is the first African-American woman to fly in space. Jamison is an astronaut, engineer and physician born in Alabama, USA.

Varis Diri was born in 1965 in Somalia in a nomadic tribe. At age 5, she underwent a female circumcision process. At age 13, she ran away from her family who wanted her to marry an older man. She came to Mogadishu and from there managed to get to London where she worked as a maid for her aunt who was the wife of the Somali ambassador. After her aunt's family returned to Somalia she stayed in London and worked as a cleaner at a McDonald's branch. One day fashion photographer Terence Donovan saw her while she was working and offered her a job modeling. Her modeling career flourished and she became an international model. In 1997, she told Marie Claire fashion magazine in an interview about the female word she went through when she was a child. The interview became famous and shocked the world. Following this she became the UN Ambassador on the issue of the struggle against female circumcision.

Varis Diri (Source)

Benazir Bhutto was born in Pakistan on June 21, 1953. She served twice as Prime Minister of the country: from 1993 to 1996, and from 1988 to 1990. Benazir Bhutto was the first woman to be prime minister of Pakistan or any Muslim country. In the early 1990s the Bhutto government disbanded following allegations of government corruption. In 1993 she was re-elected prime minister until she was again ousted and went into political exile. She lives in Dubai and London, where she continued to lead her party, the Pakistan People's Party. In December 2007, she returned to Pakistan, where she was killed in a suicide bombing that ended at a rally in support of her in the city of Rawalpindi.

Misty Copeland was born on September 10, 1982, in Kansas City, Missouri, USA to a family of African-American descent. Her parents divorced when she was two years old and she moved with her mother and five brothers to various neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California. She was admitted to the American Ballet Theater in 2000 and was promoted to the rank of solo dancer in August 2007. Misty Copeland is the first prima ballerina of African American descent in the American Ballet Theater in this role.

Misty Copeland - Autobiography (Source)

March 1 is also Compliment Day, Pig Day and 

Independence Day of the March 1 movement in Korea

World Day of Social Justice- February 20

It is true that social justice is something that should exist all year round, but it is good to have one day dedicated to raising awareness of how important social justice is to live in peace all of us together.

World Social Justice Day is a day proclaimed by the UN to raise awareness of this principle. Social justice is the basis for the coexistence of peace and prosperity between peoples and within peoples.

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The principles of social justice are gender equality, the rights of indigenous and immigrant peoples, the removal of barriers to people because of gender, age, race, ethnic origin, religion, culture or disability.

Social justice is a general concept that refers to the conditions and rules that must exist in society in order to regulate the relations between human beings, between them and social institutions, between them and human beings from other peoples. They rely on morality and human dignity and are free from biases and biases.

According to the liberal conception, the principles of social justice do not prefer one conception of good over another and they apply to each and every person equally, regardless of their origin.

For the United Nations, the pursuit of social justice for all is at the heart of the global mission to promote development and human dignity.

In honor of World Social Justice Day, you can learn about the subject, teach others and think about your position.

Only where there is social justice among human beings, can there also be cooperation, peace and mutual respect.

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February 20th is also Handcuff Day and Love Your Pet Day

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation- February 6

February 6 has been declared by the UN today as zero tolerance for female  Genital Mutilation.

Female  Genital Mutilation is a cruel practice committed primarily against minors aged 3-13, which involves all procedures involving partial or complete removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genitalia for non-medical reasons, and is recognized worldwide as a violation of the human rights of girls and women.

Female  Genital Mutilation is very common especially in Northeast African countries, the Horn of Africa and West Africa. The custom also exists among the Bedouin and Kurds in the Middle East (except in Israel). Thousands of women go through the process every day, even today.

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The custom is almost non-existent in Muslim countries in the rest of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Female circumcision is a cruel way of reflecting the inequality that is rooted between the sexes and is an extreme form of discrimination against women. Female circumcision not only destroys women's lives by infringing on their physical integrity and right to sexual pleasure, but also endangers their lives. The surgeries are apparently performed without medical supervision and often, with contaminated knives, leading to the deaths of many as a result of the surgery.

The practice of female circumcision has been going on for more than a thousand years, but the World Health Organization and UNICEF are working to eradicate it completely from the world. One of their major achievements was its outlawing in Egypt and Eritrea, but it seems the road is still long.

Although it seems to be done only in Third World countries, it turns out that even in Europe Muslims practice their daughters in secret. In East London, in 2010, young Muslim girls undergo the painful surgery at the initiative of their mothers Link to the article.

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February 6 is also Frozen Yogurt Day