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Today, world leaders at this year’s virtual United Nations General Assembly have a chance to recognize and help neutralize this threat during a high-level event on gender equality and empowering women and girls.
While India has sophisticated health care that it offers to medical tourists, Nisha Varia says the same comprehensive and quality care has to be extended to all Indian women to lower the country’s high maternal death rate.
As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees holds its annual meeting in Geneva this week, it should commit to refugee women having independent access to all aid packages and better protection from gender-based violence.