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Celebrities To Take Part In March For Gender Equality In NYC

Celebrities To Take Part In March For Gender Equality In NYC

by The Daily Eye Team March 7 2015, 3:01 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 41 secs

Actor Paul Bettany and actresses AnnaLynne McCordand Kelly Rutherford will join women’s rights leaders and activists for a March For Gender Equality on March 8 in NYC. The MARCH FOR GENDER EQUALITY: STEP IT UP! PLANET 50-50 BY 2030 event is co-hosted by UN Women and the City of New York, with the UN Women for Peace Association, NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY (NGO CSW/NY), Man Up and The Working Group on Girls NGO. Marking International Women’s Day, the event will bring together diverse partners on the eve of the 20-year anniversary commemoration of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Leading the march will be Leymah Roberta Gbowee, Nobel laureate, Chirlane McCray, First Lady of the City of New York and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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