Iranian women's human rights defender wins 2003 Nobel peace prize

15 October: World Rural Women's Day
This year the theme of the World Rural Women's Day, celebrated each year on the 15th October, is 
"Towards greater access to land and water"

Rural women make up more than a quarter of the world's population. In order to raise the profile of rural women, sensitize both governments and the public to their crucial yet largely unrecognised roles, and promote action to support them, World Rural Women's Day is marked every year on 15 October, the day before World Food Day. ...

Iranian women's human rights defender wins 2003 Nobel peace prize

Honoured for her  'efforts for democracy and human rights', 
Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and activist, is only the 11th woman to receive the award. ...

  5 August 2004, UN HQ, New York, USA

13th Meeting of States parties to the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Host/Sponsor: UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DESA/DAW)