2016
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Deepa Mehta
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Sujit Guha
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S.Shankar
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Aishwarya Dhanush
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lakshmi Puri, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director, announced the appointment of Aishwarya Rajinikanth Dhanush, a film director, classical dancer, and writer, as UN Women’s Advocate for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in India.
Detailed explanation-2: -UN Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Sima Sami Bahous of Jordan as Executive Director of UN-Women.
Detailed explanation-3: -UN Women India has added SheThePeople and its founder, Shaili Chopra, as part of its Gender Equality Allyship.
Detailed explanation-4: -Savitribai Phule (1831–1897) – started the first school for girls in the subcontinent. Tarabai Shinde (1850–1910) – activist whose work Stri Purush Tulana is considered the first modern Indian feminist text. Pandita Ramabai (1858–1922) – social reformer a champion for the emancipation of women in British India.
Detailed explanation-5: -Social reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dayanand Saraswati, Veeraslingam Pantulu, Pandita Ramabai, Mumtaz Ali, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, etc supported equality for women and eradicate problems like social problems like Sati, child marriage, dowry, etc.