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Indian women of the year 2007
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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 |
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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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INTERNATIONAL
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