Damascus, SANA_ The world celebrates today the International Women's Day which has become an annual tradition since the year 1857 until now.

This day symbolizes many decades of women's struggle on all continents, with different ethnics, religions, cultures and social classes, who have been deprived of the equal right with men.

The event is a chance for reconsidering the situation of women all over the world and to review their achievements and the goals they seek to translate into reality.

International Women's Day is a symbol of women as integral partner-makers of history. It is a denial of all form of religious gender discrimination considering women less worthy than men.

In Syria, all constitutional provisions in their essence are based on a main fact that the Syrian women enjoys the same rights as men, specially the political ones. The Syrian women has the right to exercise full political rights and to be a voter and an elected.

The Syrian women have played an important role in the process of construction and sustainable development in the country.

These rights yielded the appointment of women in Syria in the highest positions and sharing her in the People's Assembly as she has the right of candidature and gaining the parliamentary seats.

Women poses half of the society. She is the mother, sister, daughter, wife and the beloved as she represents the beauty and tenderness by all forms.

The International Women's Day started on 8 March 1857 when women working in clothing and textile factories (called 'garment workers') in New York City, in the United States, staged a protest. They were fighting against inhumane working conditions and low wages. The factory's owner and police attacked the protestors and dispersed them. Two years later, again in March, these women formed their first labour union to try and protect themselves and gain some basic rights in the workplace.

After a year of the crime, the United Nations decided to invite a number of states to participate in a general meeting held in Copenhagen, Denmark during which the 8th of March was announced as a day for all women in the world.

This day is sponsored by the United Nations since its foundation. Its Charter, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international document to recognize gender equality as a fundamental human right.

Ruaa AL-Jazeri/Ghossoun