Becky Blab

This video showcases UNIFEM’s work on gender-responsive budgeting (GRB). The film is set in Mysore, India, where an elected woman representative used the skills gained from a UNIFEM-supported GRB training to facilitate dialogue between women and municipal government and mobilize women to articulate their priorities and demand action from local leaders. As a result, budget [...]

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India’s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) revised its estimate of the number of Indians infected with HIV from 5.2m to 2.5m. But look at West Bengal, where only 0.3% of people are HIV positive, but over 6% of the state’s prostitutes. Most money given by donors will go to prevention and not relatively for treating [...]

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Renuka Chowdhury is requesting that female army officers be allowed to do combat duty. She also makes a good point that women officers’ service commission can only last a maximum of 14 years, thus making them ineligible for pension. Her point is that since technology stands in for brute force nowadays, why keep women out [...]

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I can’t really comment on her questionable behaviour because I have no idea about her history and it seems like this writer has done his research. I would like to say that maybe her problems were due in part to the troubles she faced as a woman in the IPS, but I don’t know enough.

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‘We need to change our feudal mindset and treat those in whose hands we leave our homes and children with a modicum of compassion.’ Click here for the article.

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