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‘India’s Abortion Law Should Be Changed To Save Women’, Says Mumbai Doctor Nikhil Datar

India’s abortion law should be urgently changed to prevent women from making ill-informed decisions and risking their lives with illegal pregnancy terminations, a Mum...

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Hollywood

Emma Watson Feted For Gender Equality Campaign

HARRY POTTER actress EMMA WATSON has been honored with a special award for her work campaigning for gender equality. The British star launched the United Nations’ HeF...

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Gender

EU Commends Uganda On Gender Equality

THE EU head of delegation H.E Ambassador Kristian Schmidt has hailed Uganda government for the effort it has put in place to enhance gender equality and the empowerment of ...

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Sustainable Development

Literacy Campaign For Women In Rural India

Tata Trusts and Google India announced the launch of a special program called “Internet Saathi” to empower women and their communities in rural India by enablin...

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Gender

Tagore’s Stories Have A Strange Sense Of Gender Equality: Anurag Basu

Anurag Basu on adapting Rabindranath Tagore’s stories and the genre-defying format of his next film, Jagga Jasoos. Filmmaker Anurag Basu talks about adapting Rabindra...

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Gender

How Are Girls Faring In The Sustainable Development Goals?

Progress is being made for adolescent girls in negotiations around the Sustainable Development Goals, but there are more opportunities to ensure girls are meaningfully and ...

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Gender

Santa Cruz Shakespeare Launches Its Season Of Gender Equity

In the 400 years the English-speaking world has been performing the plays of William Shakespeare, what’s happening this summer in Santa Cruz may very well be a first....

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Gender

Entrepreneurship Helps Delay Child Marriage In India, Empower Young Women

Impoverished girls in India who are at high risk of child marriage are gaining independence and generating income with the help of a Seattle-based non-profit. Landesa Rural...

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Gender

Twitter embraces Modi’s #SelfieWithDaughter call, skips grim gender gap

Social media platforms were flooded with father-daughter selfies thanks to a message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his monthly radio address on Sunday. “In...

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Gender

Dear Vogue, ‘Gay’ Is Not A Phase.

Thirteen thousand people want the magazine to apologize after the author of a Cara Delevingne profile suggests her being gay is just a ‘phase.’ Some 13,000 peop...

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