To celebrate the day and the month the State Department 's World Learning Visitor Exchange Program invited 19 women lawyers and judges from Kenya, Macedonia, Moldovia, Hungary, Bolivia, Equador, Benin, Taiwan, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, the Phillipines, Turkey, Israel, Malasia, Masambique for a month's visit to several US cities to introduce them to our country.

The aim is the creation of professional linkages among women in the legal field working to promote international cooperation in strengthening women's access to justice. The women have visited Washington, DC, Cleveland, Denver, Philadelphia -- and Syracuse. Their Syracuse host is none other than pioneer feminist, Karen DeCrow. Karen, an attorney and writer ("Young Women's Guide to Liberation ") was president of NOW from 1974 to 1977.

International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday. In this country the day honors the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run in 1911. 2011 is the Global Centenary Year.

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