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Mind The Gap

Let's hope 2014's a good one for everyone.
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Today is a special day for me as my photostream stats broke two million (2,014,223) views mark since I started Flickr account in August 2007.

I want to thank you to all friends and visitors for so much for their support and great feedback! Also many thanks for faves and wonderful comments! I would also like to give serious thanks to the thousands of photographers who have commented on my work and keep me going strong! I feel my photography has come a very long way from where I started but I still feel I am just getting started.
Let's hope 2014's a good one for everyone.

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MIND THE GAP.

An interactive data game that lets you explore the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education around the world. “learn more”.
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The new Indian census(2011), which put the population at 1.2 billion, has revealed an alarming trend. Rising incomes only seem to accelerate gendercide – the evocative term for the selective abortion of girl foetuses. There were 945 girls per 1,000 boys in the 1991 census, 927 in 2001 and now 914. It's now a crisis and we need to move beyond just acknowledging the issue.The PC & PNDT Act 1994 prohibits any form of sex-determination practise and sex-selective abortion.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) of India; 89,546 cases of cruelty by husband and relatives; 21,397 cases of rape; 11,009 cases of sexual harassment and 5,650 cases of dowry harassment were reported in India during the year 2009.
Source: National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) India, 2009

Your voice matters. Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women and girls!

Up to 70 percent of women may be abused in their lifetime. Tell governments that you want them to make ending violence against women a top priority. More than 5 million people already signed on to Say NO.
Add your name to become part of the global Say NO–UNiTE Network: “here”.

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www.un.org/womenwatch/
www.un.org/women/endviolence/
www.saynotoviolence.org/
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“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”

― Mahatma Gandhi
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz

Taken on: December 7, 2013

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Camera: Nikon D5200, f/1.8, 1/50 sec, 35mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

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