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Ban speaks to Malala, attacked Pakistani schoolgirl, to stress education and women’s rights 5 April 2013 – “I can walk. I can talk. I can do anything!” said Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, in a conversation with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on education...

Thelma Oliver was a dancer and actress who in the mid to late 1960s was making her mark on Broadway and on US film history in director Sidney Lumet’s film The Pawnbroker. Then she started studying yoga and became Krishna Kaur. This is her story. Oliver was born in Los Angeles, California in...

Forced into early marriage or denied sexual and reproductive choices…. a large majority of women have yet to find their place in what is essentially a man’s world. Empowered, really? A quarter of young Indian women’s first sexual encounters within marriage are forced It’s convenient to...

source: The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News Punjab govt sitting on funds for women’s schemes Chitleen K Sethi Tribune News Service Chandigarh, September 4 For a state that has gained the dubious distinction of leading the country in female foeticide, issues concerning members...

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Feteh International Women’s Day 8 March 2005 – The United Nations today marked International Women’s Day throughout its many agencies and across its multiple front-line outposts around the world with calls for bolder action to promote gender equality...

A service at a Bay Area Gurdwara by Safiyya Aslan It is important for people of all religions to understand each other, to recognize unique differences and to relate through their essential similarities. Recently, as part of a university research project, I was granted the opportunity to...