Commission on the Status of Women and its importance
Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the …
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‘Equality is not to be feared…to be embraced…equal world is a better world’: Exec Dir of U.N. Women
By Margaret Besheer/Voice Of America #Women Rights# Women Rights World #UN# Women Rights Advocates IBNS/CMEDIA: Female activists raised their voices at the United Nations on Friday as they marked International Women’s Day amid …
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New research sheds light on major causes of maternal deaths
According to a new study released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the leading causes of maternal deaths globally are Haemorrhage – severe heavy bleeding – and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia. …
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Taliban Minister urges Afghanistan to reopen school education for girls
#Afghanistan#Taliban#TalibanEducation#TalibanGirlEdication#SherAbbasStanikzai IBNS-CMEDIA: Criticisizing the Afghanistan government’s policy of prohibiting education for women in the South Asian country, a senior Taliban minister has reportedly urged it to reopen school education for girls. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, …
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A Kolkata court convicts Sanjoy Roy in rape, murder case
#RGKar#RGKarMedicalCollegeandHospital#SanjoyRoy#KolkataCourt#SessionsCourt#RGKarRapeMurder Kolkata/IBNS-CMEDIA: A sessions court in Kolkata today held civic volunteer Sanjoy Roy guilty of rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at the city’s state-run RG Kar Medical …
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Empowering women to end gender-based violence and turning struggle into strength
Climate change has become a key driver of conflict and forced displacement globally. According to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, 75 percent of the 120 million people displaced people globally live …
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French man orchestrating ex-wife’s decade-long mass rape, gets 20 years in prison
#FrenchMassRapeCase#France#DominiquePelicot#GiselePelicot#Crime Avignon (France)/IBNS-CMEDIA: The judges in France’s Avignon have sentenced Dominique Pelicot to 20 years in prison for drugging his wife and orchestrating her rape by 51 men, whom he …
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CBI names Sandip Ghosh, four others in RG Kar case chargesheet financial irregularity
#RGKar, #RGKarMedicalCollegeandHospital, #RGKarRapeMurder, #CBI, #SandipGhosh Kolkata/IBNS-CMEDIA: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named ex-RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and four others in the chargesheet for the case over financial …
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Nurse from UP brutally gang-raped by two men in; stick, chilli powder inserted in her private parts
#UttarPradesh, #Jalun, #NurseGangrape Jalun/IBNS-CMEDIA: A nurse was brutally gang-raped by two men in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalun as four others held her down, media reports said. The victim’s family has said a stick …
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One woman or a girl killed every 10 minutes by their partner or family member across the world
#UN, #UnitedNations, #WomanRights, #ViolenceAgainstWomen A new report released by UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Monday showed that in 2023, 140 women and girls died every day …
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