FEATURE:'Rebuilding Sichuan' takes top film prize at UN event on disaster resilience
Source:UN News.
A film chronicling the monumental effort of the engineers and designers to rebuild entire new cities from scratch following the devastating 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, took the top prize at the first United Nations co-organized International Awards for the Best TV Documentaries on Disaster Risk Reduction.
During a special ceremony at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the documentary
At UN, younger generation of gender equality activists say they are ready to play active role
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13 March 2015 – Youth delegates such as MomalMushtaq, a self-described “feminist” from Pakistan who was banned from riding a bicycle back home, and Tunisian women’s advocate AyaChebbi, who declared that her “bold
At UN, Bollywood’s FarhanAkhtar leads push to involve more men to end violence against women
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11 March 2015 – When the moderator of a panel discussion today at United Nations Headquarters in New York on how to end violence against women looked a little disappointedly at her virtually all-female audience, she called out: “Where are the men? Where are the men?”
At UN, Bollywood’s