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  2. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is a Government of India ministry.It is responsible for welfare, social justice and empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised sections of society, including scheduled castes (SC), Other Backward Classes (OBC), LGBT people, the disabled, the elderly, and the victims of drug abuse.

  3. Women and Gender Equality Bill in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill (WEGE) aimed to promote equality between men and women in South Africa. The bill was passed in 2013, and allowed for the implementation of measures to increase equality, such as designing programs to ensure women held fifty percent representation in decision-making structures. [ 1 ]

  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. Department of Trade, Industry and Competition - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (also known as the dtic; before June 2019 the Department of Trade and Industry or the dti) is the department of the South African government with responsibility for commercial policy and industrial policy.

  6. MDG Achievement Fund - Wikipedia

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    The MDG-F works in eight thematic areas: Children, Food Security and Nutrition. Programmes in this area aimed at halting preventable deaths caused by child hunger and poor nutrition by providing low cost nutritional packages, engaging with pregnant and lactating mothers to ensure they are healthy and aware of key nutrition issues, increasing food security, [5] and advocating for mainstreaming ...

  7. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    In 2011/2016, the wage payment method was shifted to the National electronic Fund Management System (Ne-FMS), a Direct Benefit Transfer system. [ 108 ] [ 109 ] [ 110 ] The Consumer Price Index-Agriculture Labour (CPI-AL) now provides a guide to fixing MGNREGA wages. [ 111 ]

  8. Global Fund for Women - Wikipedia

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    Ramdas ended her 14-year tenure at the Global Fund in September 2010, and was succeeded by Musimbi Kanyoro in August 2011. In September 2005, the Global Fund for Women created the Legacy Fund, which is the largest endowment in the world dedicated exclusively to women's rights. [4] It donates over $8.5 million annually to women-led organizations ...

  9. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Wikipedia

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    University of North Carolina course catalog from June 1819. The University of North Carolina was chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly on December 11, 1789; its cornerstone was laid on October 12, 1793, at Chapel Hill, chosen because of its central location within the state.