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Eighty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on ...

Beyond this, Wave continues to expand into frontier markets, including Burkina Faso, Gambia, Mali and Niger, enhancing financial inclusion ... significantly benefiting women by enhancing their ...

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

When Queen Hatshepsut, one of ancient Egypt's only two female rulers, died, it was widely believed that her nephew, Thutmose ...

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has announced its fifth Shri Ramayana Yatra, a 17-day religious ...

For decades, archaeologists puzzled over the nature of this 32.5-acre city, especially after the 1960s excavations led by ...

Further evidence has emerged that 8,000 years ago, women had at least as much status in society as men, at least in one of the few settlements from the time.

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Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...