World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Schemes for youth and women, 02/03/2020
<p>Question raised in Lok Sabha on Schemes for youth and women, 02/03/2020. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship is implementing Pradhan Mantri Yuva Udyamita Vikas Abhiyan (PM-YUVA), Economic
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A New Era for Girls:Taking stock of 25 years of progress
<p>The global community has good cause to celebrate the progress achieved over the last quarter century in the name of girls’ rights. But we cannot lose sight of the challenges girls still face every
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Accelerating progress: An empowered, inclusive and equal Asia and the Pacific
<p>Empowering people, ensuring inclusiveness and equality is fundamental to realizing sustainable development. What change is needed to strengthen empowerment and promote inclusion and equality of all
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A New Era for Girls: Taking stock of 25 years of progress
<p>Nearly 64 million girls were born in 1995, the year the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted, beginning their lives as the global community committed to improving their rights. In
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Asia-Pacific Beijing+25 Declaration and Report
<p>The Asia-Pacific Declaration on Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+25 Review was adopted at a three-day Ministerial Conference, organized by the United Nations Economic
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Powering the Economy with her: Women entrepreneurship in India
<p>India’s economic growth story has left women behind. Female labour force participation has stagnated, and present labour trends, technological disruptions and restrictive social barriers will
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Roads to Inclusion- Connecting People, Transforming lives in India
<p>Sericulture farms in India’s northeastern state of Assam, are suddenly witnessing a rush of female workers. Improved connectivity of villages is a major reason for this transformation. Women self-help
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Free to Shine: Africa united against childhood HIV
<p>The Free to Shine campaign1 is an initiative of the African Union, the Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) and partners to address the growing complacency in the response to
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Amendments to Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act are a mixed bag
The Union Cabinet’s approval of the amended Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Bill 2020 was reported on January 29. This amendment was long due and has made some anticipated changes demanded by women’s
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On women's backs: India inequality report 2020
Since unpaid care work is central to women’s selfhood and ascribed identities as daughters, daughters-in-law, wives and mothers, it features integrally in the power dynamics of the household. As a fundamental