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CRY highlights ten gender data gaps India needs to fill
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 11 (ANI): With a population of 225 million, girls account for 48 percent of India's children. Yet, a girl in India continues to faces discrimination from the womb.
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Smirnoff Experience brings DVLM to Mumbai
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], Oct.6 (ANI-Businesswire India): Smirnoff Experience is a music platform that is inclusive and supports equality for everyone no matter race, gender, ethnicity or sexuality. It supports and brings the best artists and music lovers together for an OPEN experience.
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Emma Watson bullied for "boring, whining, leftie" speech at UN
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept. 24 (ANI): Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, Emma Watson made a respectable call for gender equality in a recent speech at 'HeForShe' campaign in New York but a UK tabloid daily took it as a means to make fun of the Hollywood actresses.
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Pakistani Women protest outside UNHRC against gender-related violence
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept.22 (ANI): Pakistani Women's Human Rights Organisation organized a silent protest outside the UNHRC in Geneva on September 21, against gender-related violence and honour killing in Pakistan.
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Preity Zinta speaks on gender equality in NY
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 20 (ANI): Bollywood actress Preity Zinta recently presented her views about gender equality while exuding an unbreakable spirit at the Social Good Summit in New York.
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Proud to bring my home country and the US closer: Global Citizen ambassado
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 14 (ANI): Priyanka Chopra, the global ambassador for Global Citizen is proud to bring India and the United States closer through the amazing cause to fight poverty and focus on sanitation, clean water, education and gender equality.
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Swati Maliwal slams Sandeep Kumar for his 'shameful' act
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
NewDelhi, Sept. 3 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Saturday welcomed the AAP's decision to sack Sandeep Kumar, saying it is extremely shameful that the latter being the Women and Child Development Minister was busy in his own celebrations at a time when sev
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Military should address gender stereotypes, while integrating combat roles
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept. 1 (ANI): Even though the United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter earlier this year formally opened all combat jobs to women, two University of Kansas researchers say the U.S. military needs to work on changing significant cultural aspects to fully integrate
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Great step for gender justice, Muslim women: Zakia Soman
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Aug. 26 (ANI): Welcoming the Bombay High Court's verdict to allow women to enter the inner sanctum of the Haji Ali Dargah, petitioner Zakia Soman said on Friday that it is a great step for gender justice and for Muslim women.
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Ishrat Jahan case: Will approach SC under Article 32 if fundamental rights
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 26 (ANI): With the Supreme Court set to hear petitioner Ishrat Jahan challenging the constitutional validity of the triple talaq system, senior advocate R.K. Kapoor said Friday that if the fundamental rights of any Indian citizen is violated, irrespective of gender, t
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Congress pulls up Haryana Govt. over Bairagi's rape remark
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 23 (ANI): Expressing grave concern over the rising incidents of crime against the feminine gender in Haryana, the Congress on Saturday sought an apology from BJP's State Women's Cell president Nirmal Bairagi over her "rapes have been happening since the world w
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Bullying on basis of religion, gender amounts to ragging, says UGC
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 16 (ANI): The University Grants Commission (UGC) has said that bullying a student on the basis of his religion, gender, ethnicity or economic background would now amount to ragging.
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