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Adverts for women: The gender agenda

A new marketing campaign by Always is the latest to stress the importance of a woman’s appearance. Natalie Haynes looks at whether this is a positive strategy –...

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Emma Watson Named As UN Women Goodwill Ambassador

UN Women, the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, has announced the appointment of British actress, Emma Watson, as Goodw...

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Sustainable Growth Not At Cost Of Poor: Javadekar

As growth and development are the priorities of the Narendra Modi government, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on June 26 said efforts to make the global economy sust...

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Poverty, child, maternal deaths high in India: UN report

India continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals that said while several key global ta...

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Why India's sanitation Crisis kills Women

The gruesome rape and hanging of two teenage girls in the populous Uttar Pradesh state again proves how women have become the biggest victims of India’s sanitation cr...

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New poverty line: Rs 32 for rural India, Rs 47 for urban India

The latest report by Rangarajan committee has added almost 100 million more people to the list of poor The expert committee set up by the Planning Commission last year unde...

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‘Women Empowered In Support Of Sewa Day’ In Conversation With Vivek Oberoi

Some people talk the talk and others walk the walk. Vivek Oberoi, described as a Bollywood actor, social worker, adventure sports enthusiast, poet, pilot and dreamer, inspi...

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Land for ladies

Breaking the stereotype of rural women, 39-year-old Suresho Saini proudly drives a tractor to plough 1.6 hectares (ha) of agricultural land in Rahimpur village in Uttar Pra...

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Where Are the Women? A Look at Male-Dominated Fields

I had the pleasure of attending the S.H.E. Summit at the 92nd Street Y in New York on June 5th-6th. And normally, I wouldn’t be writing about something that happened ...

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Howard G. Buffett Supports Shakira's World Food Programme Campaign

Due to the overwhelming success of the campaign launched by Shakira and Activia, Howard G. Buffett, a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Ambassador Against Hunger si...

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