Authors for Peace supported Women for Women International's ‘Join Me on the Bridge’ campaign on International Women’s Day 2011.
8 March 2011 marked the first
centenary of International Women’s Day. Around the world, people considered
all that women have achieved, economically, politically and socially, in the
last 100 years, and also how much more remains to be done.
You can show your solidarity with the women
of the world at the virtual Literary Bridge. This inspirational online forum
has been initiated by Priya Basil, novelist and founder of Authors for Peace,
and created with the help of Women for Women International.
The Literary Bridge is part of
Women for Women International’s Join me on the Bridge campaign. This is a call
to unite women worldwide in a symbolic movement showing that women will build
the bridges of peace and development for the future. On 8 March
2011, more than 300 Join Me on the Bridge events took place in 48
countries.
An array of female authors have contributed moving video
messages reflecting on what 100 years of women’s rights means to them. Watch these
messages, and share in the spirit of International Women’s Day.
Rebecca Asher
Chinwe Azubuike
Priya Basil
Fatima Bhutto
Isobel Dixon
Christine Haberstock
