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Sustainable Development

Empowering Women: Reaching a Helping Hand Across the ‘Pioneer Gap’

Women’s financial empowerment has been a hot topic in recent months. There’s a Read More

Bollywood

FOR A CAUSE: SRK, Aamir, Kajol, Priyanka, Anushka, Alia, Karisma Come Together

Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor was among the star performers. Karisma, who looked beautiful in a red outfit, paid tribute to the strong and independent women of the Kapoo...

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Hollywood

‘Frozen,’ ‘Get a Horse!’ female directors mark firsts for Disney

Disney has long employed women in animation, but ‘Frozen’s’ Jennifer Lee and ‘Get a Horse’s’ Lauren MacMullan are directing. Read Read More

Bollywood

Bipasha Basu, Milind Soman support HCG Pinkathon

HCG Pinkathon, a multi city 10 KM run for women, announced the completion of 10,000 registrations this year across four cities – Bangalore, New Delhi, Pune and Mumbai...

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Hollywood

Women successful yet sidelined in film writing and directing

A new study for the BFI finds that UK independent films were more likely to be profitable if they had women in key backstage roles, yet the gender is still under-represente...

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Thought Factory

Truth or Dare…? The Alchemy of Desire Deconstructed

I am completely compelled and driven by an intense need to write this piece because I’m no longer now, able to be in denial of the force driving me to give some persp...

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Sustainable Development

Statement by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

“This violence knows no borders and it affects women and girls of all ages, all income levels, all races, and all faiths and cultures. From conflict zones to urban sp...

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Hollywood

Muffin Top Movie: Reclaiming the Female Image

Are we still in 1954? No, this is 2013, yet female directors are only 4 percent of the Hollywood equation. In fact, for the last five years, there have been fewer women in ...

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Health

Lifestyle changes ‘could reduce risk’ of pregnancy complications

A collaboration of investigators from the UK, Ireland and New Zealand say that by changing certain lifestyle factors, such as increasing fruit intake before pregnancy and m...

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Environment

After The Rain - A new documentary about how women farmers are coping with climate change

Despite their many differences in attitude, the four women all share the same sky and all of them are experiencing the same fears and challenges that come with climate chan...

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