COMMENT On International Women’s Day March 8, many messages and greetings celebrating women’s multiple roles were sent to women.

However, there is little for women to celebrate in 2015, centuries and decades after women had marched, protested, burnt bras and were punished and killed for standing up for recognition of their rights within the family, in the economic, cultural, social and political fields.

No country has reached gender parity and equality, said the United Nations in its message on International Women’s Day 2015. The Beijing Platform of Action adopted in 1995 in Beijing at the fourth UN World conference on Women was a key policy document for gender equality.