Women Journalists demand 33% presence in all media representative bodies, committees
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Women journalists from different parts of the Country on Saturday called for the allocation of 33 percent seats for women journalists in Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and other decision-making and representative bodies as well as Pakistan Press Council and committees made under the upcoming Journalist Protection Law.
These demands made part of the Islamabad Declaration issued after the National Training of Trainers (NToT) on women leadership organized by the Aurat Foundation (AF) under the Women Learning Partnership (WLP). Women journalists from different parts of the participated in the NToT.
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Health workers during the dry run of COVID-19 vaccination, at a health care centre in Kamakshipalya of Bengaluru.
As India gears up to launch the world s largest immunisation drive, almost all states and Union Territory (UT) governments, including the national capital, conducted a dry run on Saturday to assess their ability and readiness to administer Covid-19 shots to hundreds of millions of people, including many in remote corners of the country. The move came day after a government panel recommended for the emergency use approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine Covishield and all eyes are on Director Controller General of India (DCGI) for the final nod.
Dry run for COVID-19 vaccination across India to begin today ANI | Updated: Jan 02, 2021 07:54 IST
New Delhi [India], January 2 (ANI): With the objective to gear up for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine across the country, the dry run will be conducted by all the States and UT governments from Saturday.
According to Union Health Ministry, the objective of the dry run for COVID-19 vaccine introduction is to assess operational feasibility in the use of COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) application in field environment, to test the linkages between planning and implementation and to identify the challenges and guide way forward prior to actual implementation . This is also expected to give confidence to programme managers at various levels, it said.
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