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Children with disabilities more exposed to abuse and violence

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet spoke at a Human Rights Council event highlighting how disabled youngsters a...

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Powerful People

Who is Teesta Setalvad?

She’s simple, strong and she talks straight. She’s also one of the very few among us, who remains c...

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‘Evening Shadows’ makes a plea for women to stand up and be heard

While the Hindi feature film Evening Shadows, which is wowing audiences across the world is a film about a gay son coming out to ...

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International Women’s Day, a day for inspiration and change

International Women’s Day is celebrated across the world focusing on women’s achievements from the political to the social, while c...

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Gender

‘Own money’ a necessity for a woman’s true independence

Knowledge and awareness about personal finance is an absolute necessity to achieve true independence and equality. In such case, living in a wo...

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Human Rights

WEF data shows it will take 202 years to close the divide in the workplace

The world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, UN Global Compact’s Executive Director Lise Kingo spoke to the UN New...

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Human Rights

Aid workers harassed, threatened and arrested in Iraq

A Human Rights Watch report revealed that aid workers in Iraq are being harassed and detained by members of the local authority in Nineveh prov...

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Hollywood

Set in rural India, ‘Period. End of Sentence’ wins Oscar 2019

The 91st Academy Awards ceremony that honoured the best films of 2018 was held on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre i...

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Gender

‘Gender pay gap wider than last year,’ reports BBC

A research done by BBC found that in 4 in 10 companies the pay gap between the middle-earning woman and the middle-earning man had si...

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Human Rights

Sudanese refugee advocate wins international human rights award

Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a Sudanese refugee was honoured with the 2019 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders in Geneva on 13th of...

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