8M International Women's Day
Here you will find the main communication campaigns of the Barcelona City Council for 8 March, International Women's Day, and 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
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2025 CampaignUnder the slogan “Let’s break precariousness”, the 2025 campaign focused on the social and labour precariousness that affects women. This is a persistent problem with multiple aspects and requires urgent and determined attention.
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8 March AwardNominations are called for annually to commemorate International Women's Day. The aim of the award is to acknowledge initiatives and projects conceived to defend and promote the rights of women, with a different theme each year.
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2024 CampaignThe slogan for the 2024 campaign was “breaking the glass ceiling”, emphasising the vertical segregation that women still suffer today, hampering their access to positions of responsibility and decision-making.
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2023 Campaign
The 2023 campaign has placed the focus on the feminist memory. The stations on the Barcelona’s metro network and the FGC urban stops have symbolically adopted names of women who have left their mark on the city.
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2022 CampaignThe 2022 campaign placed the focus on women’s everyday struggles, the promotion of feminist policies every day of the year and the feminist economy as a response to increased precariousness, worsened by the health crisis.
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2021 CampaignIn 2021 the emphasis was on a diverse and unstoppable collective wave of women of different origins and ideologies, sharing the struggle against inequalities. The campaign highlighted women from all periods who have made a stand and who continue to fight for real effective equality.
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2020 Campaign2020 saw the organisation of a series of activities under the slogan L’ecofeminisme és la resposta [“Ecofeminism is the answer”] urgently calling for a profound social transformation to put life in all its forms firmly centre stage.
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2019 CampaignThe 2019 campaign commemorated the strike of March 1912, known as the ‘Bread and Roses’ strike, staged by female workers at a textile factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts (bread representing the struggle for better wages, and roses the struggle for better living conditions).