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International Women's Day is celebrated on 8 March around the world. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights.After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day in New York City on February 28, 1909, German delegates Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, Paula Thiede and others proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference that "a special Women's Day" to be organized annually.