India has contributed USD 300,000 to the United Nations agency for gender equality and women empowerment, a contribution lauded by the UN entity. India made the contribution to UN Women, the world organisation s entity for gender equality and women s empowerment. #India contributes USD 300,000 to @UN Women for 2021, India s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti tweeted on Thursday. He said India reaffirms its support for gender equality and women empowerment, describing UN Women as a valued partner in our progress from women s development to #women-led development. Assistant-Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women Anita Bhatia thanked India for the contribution and its support to UN Women and said in a tweet that Women-led development envisions women as agents of change driving measurable impact in the lives of women & girls.
India contributes $300,000 to UN Women
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Last Updated: Apr 02, 2021, 11:44 AM IST
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India made the contribution to UN Women, the world organisation s entity for gender equality and women s empowerment.
India has contributed USD 300,000 to the United Nations agency for gender equality and women empowerment, a contribution lauded by the UN entity.
India made the contribution to UN Women, the world organisation s entity for gender equality and women s empowerment. #India contributes USD 300,000 to @UN Women for 2021,” India s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti tweeted on Thursday.
#India contributes US$ 300,000 to @UN Women for 2021 reaffirms its support for #gender equality &… https://t.co/6catqSi8mb PR/Amb T S Tirumurti (@ambtstirumurti) 1617328922000
OHCHR
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has published its findings on Denmark, including the self-governing territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which it examined during its latest online session.
The findings contain positive aspects of how Denmark is implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. These include Denmark’s recent amendments to the Criminal Code to redefine rape on the basis of lack of consent rather than use of force or threat.
The Committee, however, remained concerned in a number of areas and made the following recommendations:
Women’s rights advocates from Eastern Europe and the Caucuses urged to promote more women in politics Ahead of the sixty fifth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65), civil society representatives called for promotion of women’s political participation and elimination of violence, discrimination and hate speech against women in politics. Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
On 11 March, over 60 women’s rights advocates from Central, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus came together to take stock of progress in women’s political participation in the region, their economic empowerment, and the elimination of all forms of violence against girls and women.
UNAIDS
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In 2009, King Zwelithini revived the practice of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) among young Zulu men to help reduce the transmission of HIV. As a result of his leadership, KwaZulu-Natal, which has the highest prevalence of HIV in South Africa, has become a flagship for the effectiveness of VMMC as part of a combination of HIV prevention tools. The King was also a renowned advocate for people living with and affected by tuber