A Ugandan woman coils a recycled paper during a weekly meeting of the Ushindi Women?s Initiative in the Soweto neighborhood of the Namuwungo slum in Kampala, Uganda on March 01, 2008. Some 60 internally displaced women from Northen Uganda who are widows, single mothers , elderly women and low income earners who left their homes in the northern region of Uganda more than five years ago in an effort to escape the violence and cycle of poverty caused by years of civil war. Nearly 100 years old, International Women's Day on March 8 marks an ongoing worldwide battle to ensure equal rights for half the globe's population on issues such as work, voting and abortion. Getty Images logo Getty Images 20 months ago

A Ugandan woman coils a recycled paper during a weekly meeting of the Ushindi Women?s Initiative in the Soweto neighborhood of the Namuwungo slum in Kampala, Uganda on March 01, 2008. Some 60 internally displaced women from Northen Uganda who are widows, single mothers , elderly women and low income earners who left their homes in the northern region of Uganda more than five years ago in an effort to escape the violence and cycle of poverty caused by years of civil war. Nearly 100 years old, International Women's Day on March 8 marks an ongoing worldwide battle to ensure equal rights for half the globe's population on issues such as work, voting and abortion.

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