Tag: rural women

By Arul Louis, United Nations : India has shared with other countries its insights on empowering rural women and girls at an event on the sidelines of the meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women drawing on its many programmes. Leaders, diplomats and activists heard about how India was combating domestic violence, trying to right the unbalanced sex ratio, increasing women's political participation and providing financial services and educational opportunities for women and girls. This was at the session on "Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment...