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'Rebuilding Sichuan' takes top film prize at UN

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FEATURE:'Rebuilding Sichuan' takes top film prize at UN event on disaster resilience

Source:UN News.

A film chronicling the monumental effort of the engineers and designers to rebuild entire new cities from scratch following the devastating 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, took the top prize at the first United Nations co-organized International Awards for the Best TV Documentaries on Disaster Risk Reduction.

During a special ceremony at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the documentary Rebuilding Sich

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Albert Einstein: Remember Your Humanity and Forget the Rest

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Submitted by kamala on Sat, 03/14/2015 - 12:28

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Younger generation of gender equality activists say

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At UN, younger generation of gender equality activists say they are ready to play active role

Source:UN News.

13 March 2015 – Youth delegates such as Momal Mushtaq, a self-described “feminist” from Pakistan who was banned from riding a bicycle back home, and Tunisian women’s advocate Aya Chebbi, who declared that her “bold” generati

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Bollywood’s Farhan Akhtar to end violence against women

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At UN, Bollywood’s Farhan Akhtar leads push to involve more men to end violence against women

Source:UN News.

11 March 2015 – When the moderator of a panel discussion today at United Nations Headquarters in New York on how to end violence against women looked a little disappointedly at her virtually all-female audience, she called out: “Where are the men? Where are the men?”

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When you're married

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Kamala 'Sarup'

This is a real story. My friend said "Why are you adding opinion in my mortal life? Whatever it may be, he was my husband. Do you remember the days when he sat in a hunger strike for seven days to marry me? Is it not he that promised in front of you to love and keep me as his queen."

"What are you going to do next?" I asked in a quiet voice. "If you agree, you can go to my parent's home. You can pass the days there easily. You can hold a small business there.