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Vidya Balan Turns Coolie For A Female Porter

AN ardent advocate of women’s empowerment, Vidya Balan brought cheer to Rajasthan’s first female coolie, Manju, by taking up her back-breaking work for Saturday...

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UN Announces First-Ever High-Level Panel On Women’s Economic Empowerment

Davos— UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment to provide thought leadership and mobilize...

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Purplehed Releases Burn Like The Sun, A Tribute To Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

The creative production house acknowledges the teachings of our beloved Dr. Kalam in the brand new music video this Republic Day

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Hollywood

Lady Gaga Dedicates Oscar Nomination To Victims Of Sexual Assault

Lady Gaga is using her recent Oscar nomination to give voice to victims of sexual assault.The singer has been nominated in the Best Song category for “Til It Happens ...

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Gender

Owning Property Empowers Women In Unique Ways”: An Interview With Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at ...

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Gender

Outside Of Class, This Afghan Teen Rapper Travels The World To End Child Marriage

Sonita Alizadeh — the Afghan teenager who escaped a teen marriage by writing a rap song about it — goes to a boarding high school in Utah, and is campaigning ag...

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Percentage of Female Directors Unchanged Despite ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ (Study)

Female directors such as “Pitch Perfect 2’s” Elizabeth Banks and “Fifty Shades of Grey’s” Sam Taylor-Johnson scored at the box office la...

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Indian Acid Attack Survivor Is New Face Of Fashion Brand

An Indian fashion retail brand has signed up prominent acid attack survivor and campaigner Laxmi Saa to be the face of its new range of designer outfits for women, in a cam...

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The Darkest Hour

“Police records in India reveal that a woman is raped every 34 minutes, molested every 26 minutes, kidnapped every 43 minutes and killed every 93 minutes”
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Gender

Hanging With The Girl-Kings Of One Of The World’s Only Matriarchies

Mawlynnong isn’t like the rest of India, or the rest of the world for that matter. Tucked into the jungle of the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, on the border of...

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