India contributes USD 1 million to UN women's body

The GNLF's women wing, Gorkha National Women's Organisation, today held a meeting in Toklang under Soureni constituency where GNWO leader Bimala Subba said the Sixth Schedule status would ensure security for the Gorkha community and lay the ...

Before we became the United States of America, before we proclaimed that We the People have certain inalienable rights, before we had the Navy, Air Force, Army, Marines, and Coast Guard, the National Guard was there fighting for freedom and ...

The United Nations has called on member-states to consider having a standalone goal of fighting violation of women's rights after the current eight-point Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015. This call was necessitated by the current ...

New York, Dec 7 : An independent United Nations human rights expert Friday urged authorities in Azerbaijan to ensure accountability for acts of violence against women, including by punishing not only the perpetrators but also those who fail in their duty to ...

Quick access Contents Precisely twenty years ago, the United Nations recognized for the first time, in a declaration dated 20 December 1993, that violence against women, resulting from the historic unequal balance of power between men and women, ...

New Delhi, 2 December: Representatives of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) today met the Lok Sabha Speaker, Mrs Meira Kumar, and urged her to ensure early passage of the Women's Reservation Bill. The NFIW delegation including its ...

Malaysia's largest political party United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) women's wing chief Shahrizat Abdul Jalil on Wednesdaysaid it is time that women are given a greater say within UMNO as well as in government-linked companies. File ...

While claiming that the 2014 budget was an attempt to please the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Rosy Senanayake said today the women in Sri Lanka were the most affected from the budget. Women ...

New York, Nov 7 : United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim pledged Wednesday to support an initiative to improve women's reproductive health and girls' education in Africa's Sahel region, and to invest USD 200 ...