International Women’s Day 2026
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Date(s) - 08/03/2026
12:00 am
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8 March marks International Women’s Day. Women and girls around the world rally to demand equal rights and equal justice to enforce, exercise, and enjoy those rights.
Nowadays, no nation has closed the legal gaps between men and women. Right now, women have only 64 per cent of the legal rights that men hold worldwide. In fundamental areas of life, including work, money, safety, family, property, mobility, business, and retirement – the law systematically disadvantages women.
International Women’s Day 2026 (IWD 2026), under the theme, “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”, calls for action to dismantle all barriers to equal justice: discriminatory laws, weak legal protections, and harmful practices and social norms that erode the rights of women and girls.
Women have only 64% of the legal rights that men hold worldwide.
If progress continues at its current pace, it will take 286 years to close legal protection gaps
In many countries, the law allows for early and child marriage, which erodes the full potential of about 12 million girls annually.
Find out more and how to take part at www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day
International Women’s Day 2026 theme is ‘Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls’
On 8 March 2026, rally with women and girls around the world to demand equal rights and equal justice to enforce, exercise, and enjoy those rights.
Nowadays, no nation has closed the legal gaps between men and women. Right now, women have only 64 per cent of the legal rights that men hold worldwide. In fundamental areas of life, including work, money, safety, family, property, mobility, business, and retirement – the law systematically disadvantages women.
International Women’s Day 2026 (IWD 2026), under the theme, “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”, calls for action to dismantle all barriers to equal justice: discriminatory laws, weak legal protections, and harmful practices and social norms that erode the rights of women and girls.