Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/September

September 1981 – Women's Action Forum formed in Pakistan which promotes women's issues, such as discriminatory legislation, dress codes, violence against women, and the seclusion of women
3 September 1981 – Coming into effect of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly—the United States is the only developed nation which has not ratified it.
13 September 1994 – Violence Against Women Act signed into law to combat domestic violence and sexual assault in the United States, what NOW called "the greatest breakthrough in civil rights for women in nearly two decades"
16 September 1923 – Killing of Noe Ito, a Japanese anarchist, social critic, author and feminist
25 September 1952 – Birth of bell hooks, an African-American author, feminist, and social activist, whose writing has focused on the connections between race, class and gender and how they produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination