(UNESCO). This year on 8 March, International Women’s Day, UNESCO Bangkok Office launched ‘Women in History – Telling HERstory through Memory of the World’ online exhibition to encourage more memory institutions in the Asia-Pacific to evaluate their collections in terms of gender dimensions.
The project ‘Women in History – Telling HERstory through Memory of the World’ aims to identifying, arousing attention and promoting preservation and access to documentary heritage collections in the Asia-Pacific region that contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The exhibition has gathered 20 documentary collections that contain ‘HERstories’ from 14 countries, including important records from the Asia-Pacific region on gender equality issues, achievements of women in history and stories told by women.
View the Women in History online exhibition