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Progress made but work remains on firewalling health policy from tobacco industry

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Progress made but work remains on firewalling health policy from tobacco industry

Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS)

 

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Hold tobacco industry liable: Turn the cost-benefit ratio upside down

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Hold tobacco industry liable: Turn the cost-benefit ratio upside down

Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS)

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Nobel laureate calls for push to end ‘biggest crime against humanity’: child labour

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Nobel laureate calls for push to end ‘biggest crime against humanity’: child labour
Source:UN News.
 

17 March 2015 – Depriving children of their childhood and their freedom is “the biggest crime against humanity,” child rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winne

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Eighty countries adopt call to action at first UN conference on dementia

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Eighty countries adopt call to action at first UN conference on dementia

 Source:UN News.

17 March 2015 – A two-day ministerial conferenc

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Where there is a will there is a way

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Where there is a will there is a way 

Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS

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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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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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Farhan AkhtarAt 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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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.

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