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Jago Grahak Jago. Jago Grahak Jago ( transl. Wake up Customer Wake up) is a consumer awareness program launched in 2005 by the Ministry of Consumer-Government of India. Under this scheme, various channels were created to spread awareness about consumer rights and to put an end to malpractices by merchants. Due to this, many ongoing malpractices ...
Same-sex marriage has been legal in South Africa since the Civil Union Act, 2006 came into force on 30 November 2006. The decision of the Constitutional Court in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie on 1 December 2005 extended the common-law definition of marriage to include same-sex spouses—as the Constitution of South Africa guarantees equal protection before the law to all ...
In May 1996, South Africa became the first jurisdiction in the world to provide constitutional protection to LGBT people, via section 9 (3) of the South African Constitution, which disallows discrimination on race, gender, sexual orientation and other grounds. Since 16 December 2007, all discriminatory provisions have been formally repealed.
Country Police Ambulance Fire Notes Afghanistan 119: 112: 119 Bahrain 999: Mobile phones – 112, Traffic police – 199, Coast Guard – 994. Bangladesh 999: Anti Corruption Commission – 106, Agricultural Information Services – 16123, Health Services – 16263, Dhaka WASA – 16162, Women and Children Ministry – 109, Legal Services – 16430, National Information Service — 333, IEDCR ...
The Democratic Alliance is a South African political party which is a part of the current South African Government of National Unity (GNU) together with the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), and several others. The party is broadly centrist, [4] [5] and has been attributed both centre-left [6] and centre-right [7 ...
This is a list of the heads of state of South Africa from the foundation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 to the present day. From 1910 to 1961 the head of state under the South Africa Act 1909 was the Monarch, who was the same person as the Monarch of the United Kingdom and of the other Dominions / Commonwealth realms.
LoveLife South Africa. loveLife is a youth focused HIV prevention initiative in South Africa . The overall aim of loveLife is to reduce the rate of new infections in young people, in order to reduce the overall prevalence of HIV in South Africa, which stands at 10.9% (2008) [1] of the population. (Additional sources: UNAIDS, HSRC, see also HIV ...
South Africa in the 1980s also provided logistical and other covert support to Resistência Nacional Moçambicana rebels, in neighbouring Mozambique fighting the FRELIMO-run government during the Mozambique Civil War, and it launched cross-border raids into Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana, killing or capturing a number of South African exiles.