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"Action to be taken against those not following dress-code in temples": M
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Shrimahant Ravindra Puri, Secretary of Mahanirvani Akhara and President of Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad told ANI that women and girls cannot wear short clothes and enter the three temples that come under Mahanirvani Akhar.
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Merck Foundation CEO, African First Ladies announce winners of their SONG
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Accra [Ghana]/ Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 7: Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, in partnership with the African First Ladies, announced the winners of Merck Foundation's two SONG Awards "More Than a Mother" and "Diabetes and Hypertension" 2022.
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Dress code implemented for women, girls in three temples in Uttarakhand
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A dress code has been implemented for women and girls in three major temples that come under Mahanirvani Akhar in Uttarakhand.
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Gender equality 'significantly important' for a world without hunger, says
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As the situation of Afghanistan continues to deteriorate under Taliban's hardline restrictions, taking a veiled dig, UN Chief Antonio Guterres has said that gender equality is significantly essential for a world without hunger, adding accessing education will increase food security for women
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Central Asia-EU meeting: Leaders express concern about Afghanistan's situa
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
President of the European Council, Charles Michel, while speaking at the meeting, called for the establishment of an inclusive government in Afghanistan, and respect for human rights, especially the right to education and work for women and girls in Afghanistan.
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Taliban intensify repression of Afghan women, girls: Human Rights Watch
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch has said that on the one hand, the Taliban continue to beg for recognition and foreign help, while on the other, they escalate repression of Afghan women and girls, Khaama Press reported.
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Taliban policies 'discriminatory', aims at removal of Afghan women from al
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
As per the reports of Amnesty International, the harassment campaign of the Taliban to systematically repress Afghan women from the public sphere is a misogyny and the policy to remove women and girls from public life is ongoing throughout the country under the Taliban's de facto regime.
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Two-Thirds of Afghanistan population face food insecurity: Human Rights Wa
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"Two-thirds of the country's population is food insecure, including 875,000 children facing acute malnutrition. Women and girls remain most at risk," said Human Rights Watch.
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Afghanistan remains one of world's worst humanitarian disasters: Human Rig
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The organization in a statement said two-thirds of Afghanistan's population is food insecure, including 875,000 children facing acute malnutrition and women and girls remain at most risk.
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Afghanistan women start food takeaway service amid work restrictions by Ta
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In the face of Taliban prohibitions on employment, a group of Afghan women and girls in the province of Herat have established a kitchen and started a catering business to support themselves, TOLOnews reported.
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Mother's Day: Over 3,000 women participate in 'Saree Walkathon' event orga
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The event which was organised by Rajkot Police alongwith 25 organisations, covered a distance of three kilometres before concluding at the starting point at the city's Police headquarter. Only women and girls dressed in sarees were allowed to participate.
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UN experts call on Taliban to end "brutal" forms of punishment
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A group of UN-appointed ten Special Rapporteurs, including Richard Bennett and members of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, called on the Taliban to end "brutal and undignified" forms of punishment, including stoning, flogging, and burying people under walls.
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