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                                                        Indian women of the year 2007

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2007
  Message of the Secretary-General (on on International Women's Day on 8 March 2007 on 8 March 2007):    Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls. "Violence against women has yet to receive the priority attention and resources needed at all levels to tackle it with the seriousness and visibility necessary." While manifestations of violence against women and girls vary across social, economic, cultural and historical contexts, it is clear that violence against women and girls remains a devastating reality in all parts of the world. Existing research, data and testimonials from women and girls world-wide provide chilling evidence. It is a pervasive violation of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality, development and peace.
   Such violence is unacceptable, whether perpetrated by the State and its agents or by family members or strangers, in the public or private sphere, in peacetime or in times of conflict. International, regional and national legal and policy frameworks have been established, covering many different forms of violence in public as well as in private settings. However, progress in the development of such legal norms, standards and policies has not been accompanied by comparable progress in their implementation. It remains insufficient and inconsistent in all parts of the world. States have an obligation to protect women and girls from violence, to hold perpetrators accountable and to provide justice and remedies to victims. The failure to meet these obligations is unacceptable. When the State fails to hold the perpetrators of violence accountable and society explicitly or tacitly condones such violence, impunity not only encourages further abuses but also gives the message that male violence against women is acceptable and normal. The result is the denial of justice to the individual victims/survivors, as well as the reinforcement of the prevailing gender inequality.
  Eliminating violence against women remains one of the most serious and urgent challenges of our time. Every one has a responsibility to act when confronted with violence. Each one of us has a duty to support and sustain a political and social environment where violence against women and girls is not tolerated; where friends, family members, neighbors, men and women, intervene to prevent perpetrators to go unpunished. 

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  Indian women of 2007
 
  
   

    Sunita Williams

   
     Sania Mirza
   On International Women's Day on 8 March 2007, a Hindustan Times-C fore survey conducted on Delhi women, the role models for Delhi women are:
 1. Kalpana Chawla
 2. Sania Mirza
 3. Sonia Gandhi
 4. Kiran Bedi
 5. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
 6. Barkha Dutt
 7. Indra Nooygi
 8. Lata Mangeshkar
 9. Arundhati Roy
10. Ekta Kapoor
11 Rani Mukherjee
12. Preity Zinta
13. Aishwarya Rai
14. Shabna Azmi
15 Asha Bhosle
 

 Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams made history when she became the second woman of Indian origin
after Kalpana Chawla to walk in space.  It was the culmination of a long journey for Sunita after being selected by NASA in June 1998 for a space mission as a flight engineer on the International Space Station. After six years of training, Sunita took off on the space shuttle Discovery on December 9, 2006 and is scheduled to be in space for about 6 months.
  Sunita started off her career as a helicopters and aeroplane pilot, and applied to NASA after logging in 2,770 hours in the cockpits of as many as 30 different aircraft. Born to a Gujarati father, Dr Deepak Pandya and Bonnie, of Yugoslavian descent, Sunita is proud of her Indian roots. She took along with her an idol of Ganesha, a copy of the Bhagavad Gita and samosas to eat in space. An animal lover, Sunita says she would have been a veterinarian if she hadn’t become an astronaut.
 
Sania Mirza
  Sania Mirza has ventured where no Indian woman had gone before. She planted herself firmly in the annals of Indian sporting history when she became the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title at the Hyderabad Open in 2005. The same year, she also became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam Tournament at the US Open. Today, Sania is among the Top 50 woman
tennis players in the world - yet another first for an Indian woman.
   Sania had an early start in competitive tennis, picking up a tennis racquet at the age of six. She turned pro at the tender age of 13, and hasn’t looked back since. Sania is the ultimate poster girl of the Indian media. She is admired for daring to be different, wearing her attitude on her sleeve. She’s often seen in T-shirts with lines that say “I’m cute, no shit”, “Well-behaved women rarely
make history”, and “You either agree with me or you’re wrong”.
   Her greatest inspiration, she says, is when a girl comes to her and says “I picked up a tennis racquet because of you”. She’s certainly an inspiration for any Indian girl.
                                                                                        
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