India Is Updating National Policy For Women’s Empowerment: Maneka Gandhi

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 15 (PTI): India has enabling conditions for gender equality and is updating the National Policy for Women to establish a solid foundation for accelerating its commitment to women’s empowerment, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has said.
“Ensuring gender equality, promoting women’s empowerment and combating discrimination and violence against women are integral to our national pursuit of forging inclusive society and development,” Ms Gandhi, Minister for Women and Child Development, said yesterday.
“We have adopted both enabling legislative and policy framework for advancement of women and undertaken awareness generation and sensitisation programmes to fight social prejudices and stereotypes,” she said during a roundtable session at the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

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