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  2. Welfare schemes for women in India - Wikipedia

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    Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY), Conditional Maternity Benefit (CMB) is a scheme sponsored by the national government for pregnant and lactating women age 19 and over for their first two live births. The programme, which began in October 2010, provides money to help ensure the good health and nutrition of the recipients.

  3. Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act - Wikipedia

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    On March 9, 2008, Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, signed the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Bill into law. The bill was passed through parliament in September 2007 by President Mugabe's party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), in spite of resistance by the opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

  4. National Educational Television - Wikipedia

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    National Educational Television (NET) was an American educational broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It operated from May 16, 1954, to October 4, 1970, and was succeeded by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which has memberships with many television ...

  5. United Nations Slavery Memorial - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 40°45′1.7″N 73°58′0.8″W. View of the memorial from the outside. The United Nations Slavery Memorial, officially known as The Ark of Return – The Permanent Memorial at the United Nations in Honour of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, is an installation at the Visitors' Plaza of the Headquarters of ...

  6. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    Status: In force. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MGNREGA, earlier known as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, [3] is an Indian social welfare measure that aims to guarantee the ' right to work '. This act was passed on 23 August 2005 [1] and was implemented in February 2006 under the UPA ...

  7. Friends of Lulu - Wikipedia

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    Friends of Lulu President Valerie D'Orazio at the Friends of Lulu table at the Big Apple Con, November 15, 2008. Friends of Lulu (FoL) was a non-profit, national charitable organization in the United States, designed to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry.

  8. State-owned enterprises of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The situation at Eskom was regarded as so serious as to lead the South African business newspaper Business Day to speculate that it could cause a national banking crisis. In 2021 the South African Treasury reported that South African Airways had accumulated a total loss between 2008 and 2020 of R32 billion (US$ 2.1 billion) and received a total ...

  9. MDG Achievement Fund - Wikipedia

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    The Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) was an international cooperation mechanism committed to eradicating poverty and inequality and to accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) worldwide.