DEAR READERS

I Have Immense Pleasure In Realising Volume IV, Issue 1 – 2018 Indian Journal Of
Advanced Nursing.

I thank all the authors for your valuable support and encouragement to run the journal.

The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, is “Time is Now: Rural and urban
activists transforming women’s lives”.

This year, International Women’s Day came on the heels of unprecedented global movement
for women’s rights, equality and justice. This has taken the form of global marches and
campaigns, including #MeToo and #TimesUp in the United States of America and their
counterparts in other countries, on issues ranging from sexual harassment and femicide to
equal pay and women’s political representation.

Echoing the priority theme of the upcoming 62nd session of the UN Commission on the
Status of Women, International Women’s Day drew attention to the rights and activism of
rural women, who make up over a quarter of the world population, and are being left behind
in every measure of development.

Highlights of International Women's Day 2018 in India:

 On International Women's Day 2018, PM Modi said he was inspired by 106-year-old
woman Kunwar Bai, a resident of Chhattisgarh, who sold her goats to build a toilet
in her village.
 He also said that "her contribution towards a Swachh Bharat can never be forgotten.
I am deeply inspired by her noble gesture".

Thanks and best wishes

Sincerely

Dr. Kanimozhi .A

Editor in Chief IJAN