International Women's Day News

Bangalore: The Karnataka Government is committed to ensuring that not a single girl child is deprived of educational opportunities, Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said here on Wednesday.

Women are making up an increasing percentage of the world's workers, but many still find it impossible to break into top jobs, the International Labor Organization said Thursday.

Tradition is a comforting concept. So is the idea of tea, sandwiches, strawberry shortcake, Devonshire cream and other tasty treats.

That was until the Sydney-based duo's distributor got wind of the fact that Moss was partially topless in the image and restricted the issue, which is due out Friday.

European environmentalists dedicated the 2008 International Women's Day to a newfound heroine: Helene Pelosse.

President Obama is continuing plans to have Iranian diplomats - representatives of a regime that continues to imprison and kill peaceful protestors - celebrate July 4th, a holiday marking liberty and freedom, at U.S. embassies around the world.

The government handed over a demand draft to late Rajkumar's wife, an awardee of the Kittur Rani Channamma Award.

Inspite of various declarations, commissions and conferences held for years to safeguard women, they still remain unsafe Hardnews Bureau For the last 100 years, International Women's Day is being observed on March 8 across the globe.

This crude observation is true for many countries on the continent where children go to bed hungry while their equally hungry parents butcher each other instead of tilling the land.

A NATIONAL healing taskforce set up by the Government will soon embark on outreach programmes with the primary objective of settling political disputes between known offenders and their victims, Vice President Joice Mujuru has said.

Aylesbury Estate's community champion wins HCA award for 'Outstanding Commitment' Aylesbury Estate community champion Jean Bartlett has won a prestigious award from the Homes & Communities Academy in the 'Outstanding Commitment' category, for "demonstrating community spirit and encouraging involvement from others". The judges were impressed with ...

On March 13, the Walmart Foundation donated $25,000 to CARE, a humanitarian organization dedicated to fighting global poverty.

The May 30 one-year anniversary of the anti-pesticide rally that ended in the Tasering and arrest of Ian Van Ornum, as well as the arrest of several other participants, has passed, but key civil rights questions remain unanswered.

Monia Mazigh: Thoughts on joining delegation to Gaza By Monia Mazigh May 28, 2009 To be allowed to enter into Gaza or not to be allowed? This is the question swirling in my mind these days as I am getting ready to travel with a Codepink delegation to Egypt and then to Gaza.

With violence in Afghanistan at its highest since the Taliban was ousted, Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday welcomed U.S. counterpart Barack Obama's openness to adapting tactics used to deal with moderate elements in Iraq.

A fun night out celebrating International Women's Day has raised hundreds of pounds for the Peterhead branch of Macmillan Cancer Support.

International Women's Day is widely celebrated in the former Soviet Union, but many women are beginning to turn their backs on it.

U.S. military officials from the Mehtar Lam Provincial Reconstruction Team met with Ussama Osman, the eastern region head of office for the U.N. World Food Program, on April 20 to discuss cooperative efforts on projects between the two organizations.

TRURO Lenore Zann will never forget her first visit to Province House watching in awe as Alexa McDonough powerfully addressed the legislature.

It will be a day of endless celebration with contests, allied activities at 'The Hindu Chennai Super Mom 2009', being organised as part of International Women's Day at Raja Muthiah Hall, from 11 a.m. Printer friendly page Send this article to Friends by E-Mail Tamil Nadu The Hindu Group: Home