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		<title>Healthcare System After The Pandemic &#8211; Impact On Women And Children Globally!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The pandemic has left some shocking impacts on women and children globally. The UN reports show women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s health is suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Conflicts, pandemics, and climate change primarily affect women and children. According to the last Every Woman, Every Child Progress Report, published in 2020, &#8220;Children&#8217;s and women&#8217;s problems like [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Risk Of Violence Against Women Across The World Due To Climate Change! Give A Thought!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Climate change and environmental dehydration causes and consequences are topics of debate for many years. Climate change is long-term shifts in weather patterns but that&#8217;s another story. How this climate change can impact and raise the risk of violence against women, is something we need to think about. An UN-appointed independent human rights expert Reem [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Investing In Girls For A Better Tomorrow, Theme For International Day For Girl Child Conducted By The UN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For a better future, it’s mandatory to ensure to educate girls and women all around the world. With the same thought on the 10th Anniversary of International Day of Girl Child, the UN chief Secretary-General said, “When girls are supported to realize their human rights, they can reach their potential and create a better world [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow: Theme for 2022 International Women’s Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Souti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 05:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’, is the theme for International Women’s Day this year. And to celebrate this an event will be organized on 8 March 2022, 10–11.30 a.m. EST. Here people will acknowledge the contribution of girls and women worldwide. Women, who took the lead role in building a more viable [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From 18 to 20 Years, Minimum Age of Marriage for Women in India; Mixed Reactions!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The recent move by the Indian government for increasing the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 years to 21 years, received mixed reactions. According to women&#8217;s rights activists, it could be a &#8216;disaster&#8217;. More than a year after Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, announced the plan during his Independence Day address of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exploring the History of European Witch Hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asserted that the stress caused due to European witch hunt has propagated through the various generations and haunts the women of today. From 1450 to 1750, many women across the continent were publicly executed on charges of being allegedly being a witch.&#160;Prosecutions for the crime of&#160;witchcraft&#160;reached a highpoint from 1580 to 1630 during [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Abortion Ban, US Supreme Court Allows Challenges to Proceed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Abortion law in Texas, which came into effect in September 2021, bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. However, most women don&#8217;t even understand what they are expecting in this timeframe. Currently, this is a developing battle across all the US. The ruling passed on this eliminates a block that a lower court issued. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fashion house Chanel, Appointed Indian-born Leena Nair, as CEO!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Indian born, Leena Nair, hired as the CEO of the luxury fashion house Chanel. She was an industry outsider born in India and worked as an executive at Unilever. Nair chose one of the leading social media sites to express her humble feeling. She said that she felt honored to get the opportunity to serve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu Powerful Message to Young Women — Truly Admirable and Inspiring!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Harnaaz Sandhu of India, crowned the 70th Miss Universe, outperforming the field of some 80 contestants in a beauty pageant held in Eilat, Israel.&#160; Although the pageant was in tremendous controversy due to politics and the ongoing Pandemic, the show went successfully. The pageant included a series of interview sessions, displaying national costumes, public speaking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Colleagues Turned Hostile &#8211; She Took her Grief to a Parenting Forum!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An unnamed woman revealed in one of the British parenting forums that, when she returned to work after a short break for mental illness, some of her co-workers/colleagues turned hostile towards her. When she went to her boss, her boss said her colleagues were upset that she didn&#8217;t recognize their efforts, what they did for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Clubbers Left in a Frenzy After the Picture Incident at the Nightclub!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A 27-year-old photographer from Greater Manchester, Alex Brown&#8217;s snap went viral, in which two men were captured in the act of eyeing two women on the nightclub&#8217;s dancefloor, clubbers left in a frenzy. However, the photographer explained that his timing was odd. He took the snap earlier this month at Liquid and Envy in Oldham. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Bodyright&#8217; Campaign Raises their Voice Against Online Gender-Based Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Corporate logos and&#160;Intellectual Property&#160;(IP)&#160;receive&#160;“greater protection online than we do as human beings”,&#160;the&#160;UN’s women’s health&#160;agency&#160;that works to end&#160;gender-based violence,&#160;UNFPA,&#160;said&#160;on&#160;Thursday, launching&#160;a new&#160;bodyright&#160;campaign to help shield bodies and minds from&#160;cyber&#160;violence.&#160; Recently The United Nations introduced a campaign against gender-based violence or assault over the internet. The campaign had a trademark symbol&#160;ⓑ&#160;to use on social media posts. Natalia Kanem, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exercising in Polluted Areas Don&#8217;t Have the Same Benefit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Running and Jogging helps reverse some brain ageing, but what happens when exercising in polluted areas! As per some recent studies, exercising in polluted areas could have a harmful effect. Exercises, especially outdoor, like a jog or run or playing football or tennis, play a positive role in reversing age-related ailments.&#160; Exercise is Good, But&#8230; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Homebirth Services Discontinued after Midwife Shortfall!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The extreme shortfall of midwives changed the whole home birth facility system in the various hospitals across the United Kingdom.&#160;It&#8217;s been witnessed that over 20 trusts have already suspended home birth facilities in the last three months. Because of the shortage of workers, some institutions like Swansea Bay University Health Board, East Kent Hospitals, NHS [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Do Women feel Unsafe, Walking Home After Dark?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 15:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAWC) revealed that violence against women is so common and normal that women in our society need to find out creative ways of ensuring their safety continuously. This includes continuous checking their surroundings, sharing location with friends, finding a safe route to home, etc. The risk [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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