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Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad (transl. "Women Home Industry Tasty Papad"), popularly known as Lijjat, is an Indian women's worker cooperative involved in manufacturing of various fast-moving consumer goods. The organisation's main objective is empowering women by providing them employment opportunities.
On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States. 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro . 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
Sara Hlupekile Longwe, a consultant on gender and development based in Lusaka, Zambia, developed The Longwe's Women Empowerment Framework (WEF) in 1995. Adopted by the United Nations, the WEF is a tool kit to achieve women's empowerment, plan and monitor the development of women-related programs and projects worldwide. [51]
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Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition (book) Kamla Bhasin (24 April 1946 – 25 September 2021) was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist . Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focused on gender education , human development and the media.
Bhatt's book has been translated into Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi and is currently being translated into French and Tamil. [citation needed] Bhatt, E. R. (2006). We are poor but so many: the story of self-employed women in India. Oxford, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516984-0; Bhatt, E.R. (2015). Anubandh : Building Hundred Mile Communities ...
She was secretary of the first Committee on the Status of Women in India that brought out the first report on the condition of women in the country, Towards Equality (1974). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was the founding Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), an autonomous organisation established in 1980, under the Indian Council of ...
Virendra Kumar Khatik (born 27 February 1954; Hindi pronunciation: [ʋiːɾeːn̪d̪ɾə kʊmaːɾ kʰəʈiːk]) is an Indian politician serving as the 29th Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment since 2024. He is a Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from Tikamgarh. [1]