International Widows Day: Activist calls on women to adapt husbands families in marriage
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, a women activist Nana Yaa Abrafi Bonsu is urging wives to adapt their husband’s families and make them their own.
Nana Ama Asiedu Francisca 
A Women activist, Nana Yaa Abrafi Bonsu is urging wives to adapt their husband’s families and make them their own in the celebration of International Women’s Day.
The move according to the activist will help widows from being maltreated by their in-laws.
Nana Yaa Abrafi Bonsu made the call when contributing to the day’s celebration and its relevance. International Widow's Day is observed on 23rd June every year to address the issue that widows and their children face in several countries.
United Nations wanted to draw attention towards the experiences of widows and how to provide unique support at the time they need hence the theme for this year's International Widow Day, "Invisible Women, Invisible Problems”. Several women around the world after losing her life partner faces challenges and do long-term struggle for basic needs, their human right and dignity. Various conditions being in the society they face like denied inheritance rights to the piece of land, forced into unwanted marriages, unimagined widowhood rituals, force to leave his husband's home etc.
International Widow's Day encourages people to work towards the rights of widows, highlighting the issues that women face, violence, discrimination and poverty suffered by the widows. However, this day is observed to provide education to women who want to study, healthcare facilities, develop various resources and policies to empower widows so they can live violent and abuse-free life with dignity and respect.
The women activist however want the normal trends of widows being given food items to stop and changed to business capital to enable them to become independent.
