On the. Women facing deadly all in their pursuit of the through this ok. Im very in delhi welcome to news asia today on the program we bring you a glimpse into the challenges that women in india and the wider south asian region face now according to the 2017 Global Gender Gap report. In this south asian region 62 yes to bridge the gap that exists between men and women now these gaps according to the report are primarily economic participation and political empowerment issues that governments in the region and women themselves have been trying to tackle. Over a number of years today we bring you a few stories from south asia. Here in Delhi Parliament behind me is considering a law that will ban a bubble divorce practiced by some Indian Muslims now this lower school kelley being called the triple bill is the new word for divorce and in the past muslim men have been able to divorce their vives merely by altering the word luck 3 times now the Supreme Court has already made this practice il
With the Chinese Government. Tiktok has told lawmakers that it has taken steps to ensure the data of american users isnt compromised by employees in china. Nevertheless, the legislation should head to the senate next. Its fate there is uncertain. Following the house vote, tiktok urged its 150 million users in the us to lobby against the bill by calling on them to contact their members of congress. Tiktok influencers also protested against the bill outside the white house. Heres what they told our correspodnent. I am aware that im giving my data, right. Im aware. Im ok with it. Let me make that decision, you dont need to make that for me. You know, thats where i stand. To be quite honest, everything on the internet is a Security Risk and so, this may be have a Parent Company that is foreign, but we have just as many Security Risks with Domestic Companies as well, and so i would love to see our lawmakers spend this much time and energy to pass more Data Protection overall, for all americ
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Institute of Global Politics just six months ago. In that time, i would say weve done more than some institute lets do in years. And though, of course, thats not surprising, given who our leader is as secretary clinton herself likes to say, if you want something done, a a busg y woman to do it. And i have from our very first conversations were aligned on a. We wanted to launch the institute, then turn to one of the most important and most overlooked topics there is the full and equal participation nation of women. We were determined to approach this not as an afterthought, but rather as a core focus of igp. Now, when i became dean of cpr, we identified five five pressing Global Challenge ges, each of these challenges is a womens issue. When women are includeth a agree more likely to be reached and to last geopolitical stability is a womens issue from the talibans efforts to end Girls Education in afghanistan to abortion bans, theorld around the world and in states across the United Sta
Thank you all for being with us today. It is really hard to believe that we launched the institute of Global Politics just six months ago. In that time, i would say weve done more than some institutions do in years. Of course that is not surprising given whoever leader is with secretary clinton herself, if you want something done, ask a busy woman to do it. And i have. From our very first conversations about idp hillary and i were aligned. We wanted to launch the institute and then turned to one of the most important and most overlooked topics there is the full and People Participation of women. We were determined to approach this not as an afterthought, but rather as a core focus of igp. When i became dean, we identified five pressing Global Challenges. Each of these challenges is a womens shift. Ded in the Peace Process agreements are more likely to be reached and to last. Geopolitical stability is a womans issue. From the taliban efforts to end Girls Education in afghanistan to a fo