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New York, Mar 9(JEN): To mark International Women's Day on Sunday, senior United Nations officials highlighted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a historic roadmap signed by 189 governments 20 years ago that set the agenda for realizing women's rights. more
Gender equality vital for world to fulfill potential: Ban

New York, Mar 9(JEN): Thousands of people gathered on Sunday in New York to march from United Nations headquarters to Times Square in commemoration of International Women's Day and to demand ...

Link Jan-Dhan with women entrepreneurship development to make it more purposeful: Study

New Delhi, Mar 8 (JEN): With a view to tap the huge potential of women entrepreneurs in India, apex industry body ASSOCHAM has suggested the Government to link the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yo ...

India celebrates International Women's Day

New Delhi, Mar 8 (JEN): Amid a steep rise in concern over crimes against women including the danger of sexual assault, physical abuse, rape, molestation, domestic violence and gender bias at ...

Gender inequality is fundamentally a patriarchal power game: Survey

Kolkata, Mar 7 (JEN): Almost 1900 women across the nation responded to questions to the online survey titled 'Is It an Unequal World?' and the findings clearly underlined that women felt the ...

UN kicks off International Women’s Day celebrations

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): Despite great strides in the advancement of gender parity, women still lag behind men across an array of critical areas, from political representation and wage equalit ...

Women’s workplace equality may take decades: UN

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): Women earn on average 77 per cent of what men earn, the United Nations labour organization said on Friday, noting that “without targeted action, pay equity between w ...

Women farmers pillar of food security: UN

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): Ahead of International Women’s Day, United Nations food relief agencies gathered to remind the world that women farmers play a central role in achieving food and nut ...

UN sets equality targets for 2030

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): The past 20 years has seen haltering progress on women’s rights issues and, in some areas, outright stagnation and regression, the head of the United Nations entity ...

Germany makes available Rs 70 Lakh for NGO project on Women's Day

New Delhi, Mar 5 (JEN): Ambassador Michael Steiner will be celebrating International Women's Day at his residence here on Sunday with over 200 guests, mainly women from all walks of life.