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Towards Equality on International Women’s Day 2023

On International Women’s Day, The Hindu joins forces to cover gender-based global issues and to focus on the women, men, NGOs, citizen movements and policies tackling the gender gap at their level.

March 08, 2023 05:40 pm | Updated March 14, 2023 07:51 am IST

The Hindu Bureau

To mark International Women’s Day, along with 14 news outlets around the world, led by Sparknews, The Hindu joins forces to cover gender-based global issues and to focus on the women, men, NGOs, citizen movements and policies tackling the gender gap at their level, as well as the impact empowering women can have on wider issues. Stitched together, these stories are a testimony that gender equality should not remain a distant dream.

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