The preparations of the Brazil Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting are well under way. After consulting the wider Internet community and discussing the overarching theme of the 2015 IGF meeting, the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) decided to retain the title “Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development”.
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Going to school is becoming an increasingly dangerous proposition for girls around the world. Schools in at least 70 countries experienced some form of attack between 2009 and 2014, said the United Nations in a new report. Girls were overwhelmingly the target of such attacks. High-profile cases, like the assassination attempt of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai…
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is concerned that a number of proposed amendments to Thailand’s law relating to military courts, which are due for consideration this week, are not in line with international standards, according to a the High Commissioner’s spokesperson.
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High-profile attacks such as the abduction of 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan are a fraction of what is suffered by girls trying to get an education, the UN human rights office said on Monday.
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The report, which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March, depicts a country suffering from increasing turmoil and lawlessness, inflamed by a multitude of competing, heavily armed groups and a broadening political crisis. Against such a backdrop, it calls for bolstering State institutions, urges accountability for rights violations and support for…
It’s interesting to know that the most recent census data available states that out of the 1.2 billion people in our country, there are about 200 million Indians who can read, write and talk in English and almost about half a billion of the population have identified Hindi as their mother tongue (2001). How does…
ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, on Tuesday launched first digital Bank in the country, “Pockets’, on a mobile phone. “Technology changed the way of life…… Technology changed the social life….. Technology changed the way we do banking,” said Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank while launching the product…
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing his ambitious Digital India campaign, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) expects the upcoming Union Budget 2015 to promote digital entrepreneurship.
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The Department of Electronics and Information Technology has called for a meeting with the chief secretaries of all states on February 20 to chalk out a roadmap for adequate use of geographic information system applications, as part of the Centre’s Digital India programme.
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Finnish mobile communications company Nokia Corp. Tuesday said that it can play a role to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Digital India initiative that includes manufacturing in the country.
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