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Collective action by independent Iranian women's organizations on March 8, International Women's Day We, twenty-four Iranian women's organizations scattered around the world, stand together keeping our group s' identity independent, to show our solidarity in the fight for gender equality with Iranian women and around the world on March 8, Day International women's international. We proudly declare that we support the results of Iranian women for accomplishing unimaginable businesses with courage and fortitude, and that women are today at the forefront of all social struggles in Iran. We collectively express our determination to change power relationships and seek reparations for the damages Iranian women have suffered, more than ever in the last four decades. It's been 1910 years since the International Conference of Socialist Women held in Copenhagen in 1910 100 people from 17 countries attended the conference and approved Clara Zetkin's proposal to establish an International Women's Day. Following in their footsteps, the United Nations General Assembly in 1977 finally recognized March 8 as International Women's Day. At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st Century, two billion and seven hundred million women worldwide still don't enjoy the same rights, despite the progress and results achieved by their struggles for politics, economy, society and equality Sexual gender. One in three women suffer violence during their lifetime. Women receive 23 % less pay than men for the same job. And only in 21 out of 130 countries around the world, women occupy leadership positions. March 8 is the day when women around the world, regardless of dissimilarity, declare their determination for an equal world and for the complete elimination of gender oppression in the patriarchal system. Women of the world come together today to continue the fight with empathy, solidarity and similar sensitivity as half of human society, relying on their successes and progress in the fight against religious extremism, political Islam, neoliberal policies and the conservative forces. The COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences have increased economic, gender and racial, systematic, structural and discriminating barriers. Women around the world have suffered violence in the private sphere like never before, their unpaid workload has increased and unemployment and poverty have curtailed them more. Although women are a major force at the forefront of countering the COVID pandemic and providing services, they have and continue to have few opportunities to address its wider aspects in national and international decision-making. Therefore, the United Nations theme for March 8, 2021 is ′′ Women in Leadership, Achieving an Equal Future in the COVID Era ". Despite political obstacles, Iranian women have been continuously celebrating March 8 for nearly a hundred years. From the formation of Peyke Saadat Nesvan in Rasht in 1921 to women's demonstrations against mandatory hijab, in prison and in the streets, Iranian women celebrate this day in solidarity with women around the world, renewing the their efforts to fight gender oppression. On March 8th we stand by the powerful Iranian women, and we are proud of their tenacity in struggles. We feminists, egalitarian and human rights advocates for women's human rights are committed on March 8 to support the results of their struggles in the last hundred years, to continue to fight oppression, backwardness and to say no to gender-sexual discrimination, national, ethnic, racial, economic and social class. We are independent and diversified women's organizations with a collective will, acting as an ′′ unstoppable current ′′ that won't stop until women's legal, social and political wishes and demands are met; until the end of violence against Iranian women in the sphere public and private; until all women prisoners are released and the poverty women face will not be eradicated.