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Women’s Day rally in Tokyo

Published: 8 March 2011
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 The Japan’s national center JTUC-Rengo / its regional bodies organized events to mark the International Women’s Day in each prefecture. In Tokyo, Rengo together with Rengo Tokyo held the Central Rally in the evening, attended by more than 800 participants including active women and men unionists from UNI affiliates.



Before the rally started, women from Rengo affiliated unions distributed roses to citizens on a street to promote the gender equality.



This year, the two main issues - “Fighting for Gender Equality in the 2011 spring labor offensive” and “Stop Violence against women” - were raised by Sis. Yoko Yamaguchi, Deputy General Secretary of Rengo. Following reports on efforts to tackle the wage gaps between women and men by the two female union officials, Sis. Yoko Sekizaki, JSD shared the debates on these issues in the UNI World Women’s Conference and World Congress in Nagasaki, UNI’s global campaign on “Stop Violence” and relevant resolutions adopted. At the end of her speech, she expressed her determination to be more involved in activities on ending violence against women, which was inspired by the experience of participating in the Nagasaki Congress.



Finally all the participants sang “Solidarity Forever” and adopted a statement calling for gender equal society, especially in the workplaces and trade unions by achieving “Decent Work and Work Life Balance for all” and “No more violence against women”.