Following what has been a very intense year for women’s rights in Peru; Nani is involved in planning the Women’s strike on International Women's Day.  

Jenni Murray is here with Brita Fernandez-Schmidt and Nimco Ali. We're taking a tour round the world hearing from women in India, South Africa, Peru, Syria and Turkey. 

We want to see how your day is going wherever you are, even your less-than-perfect moments.

Image source, Roxie Nafousi

On Woman's Hour we'll be asking women around the world what's on their minds - and we want to hear from you too. Send us your thoughts and pictures @BBCWomanshour on Twitter, external and Instagram, external using the hashtag.

Muzoon Almellehan made it her mission to persuade girls to stay in school and has been called the Malala of Syria. She spoke to Today about why she thinks education is so important.

You can find out more about Muzoon and Malala here .

Listen to Muzoon's full interview on Today  from 08:40am onwards.   

From Mexican painter Frida Kahlo to US astronaut Sally Ride, find out more about the women who are being celebrated today (via The Independent, external )

What is the connection between the right to go topless and a growing campaign to end violence against women in Latin America?  Last month dozens of women gathered in central Buenos Aires to demand the right to sunbathe topless. The protest came after three women sunbathing on a beach in the capital were asked to leave by the police or face arrest. 

Like Ethel Smyth, Nancy Astor was breaking boundaries when she became the first female MP in the UK to take up her seat in Parliament in 1919. 

The percentage of women in parliaments around the world nearly doubled between 1995 and 2015, according to UN Women, external . But we still have a long way to go! This only translates into around 23% in Parliament today.

Who are the trail-blazing women that inspire you today? #BeBoldForChange

Over the weekend hundreds of women gathered in central London to march ahead of International Women's Day, and A Day Without A Woman strikes are planned in more than 30 countries today. 'March of the Women' might just be the perfect soundtrack for anyone who is marching today, composed by the first woman composer ever to be made a Dame, Ethel Smyth. 

Smyth was 52 in the summer of 1910 when she met Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British suffragette movement. She dropped everything to join Pankhurst’s organisation. Read more about her life and hear the “the Marseillaise of the Suffrage Movement” here .

The protest movement, external invites women to join by taking the day off from paid and unpaid labour, avoiding shopping for one day (with certain exceptions), and wearing red to show solidarity. At least 3 school districts are cancelling classes because of the women’s strike according to Vox, external .

Read more, external about how the strike is affecting schools in the United States today.

We want to celebrate a few of the amazing women we've spoken who have inspired us to #BeBoldForChange this year. The formidable Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie taught us why it is important to reject the idea of likeability.

You can read more wisdom from Chimamanda in Five Life Lessons with... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We want to hear from you. Send us your thoughts and photos from wherever you are in the world @BBCWomansHour, external using the International Women's Day 2017 hashtag #BeBoldForChange, external  

You might have seen International Women's Day mentioned in the media or heard friends talking about it. But what is it for? When is it? Is it a celebration or a protest? And is there an equivalent International Men's Day? 

To mark the occasion we'll be hearing from women around the world later this morning on Woman's Hour, from Peru to South Africa. But we'll also be bringing you updates here throughout the day. 

Join us to celebrate women from 8am!