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Summer vacation meant going to Kolkata,the excitement,the planning for a month long stay kept us busy.

Once when I was very young,maybe 4 or 5 years the whole vacation turned into a. A peaceful morning was shattered when my father & elder brother returned back from the market
The father was bleeding profusely from the knees and brother was obviously shaken. I was too young to understand or now recollect what exactly happened but this incident has been discussed so many times that I can tell you what happened
While my father was purchasing vegetables all of a sudden a bomb was hurled and ppl started running to take shelter.
My father was able to enter a shop and if I am not wrong the shutter was pulled down.
When the situation quietened they immediately returned home
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@THP_Ind is thrilled to be at the #CSW63 this time around as well.

Day 2: Attending one of the side events focused on sexism, harassment and violence against women parliamentarians.

#womeninpolitics #righttosafety #SayNotoViolence #CSW2019
Charles Ramsden from the Gender Equality Commission, Council of Europe spoke about how women in positions of authority were more vulnerable to sexist and sexualised abuse

#womeninpolitics #righttosafety #SayNotoViolence #CSW2019 #notmyparliament
Dubravka Šimonović, the UN Special Rapporteur on #VAW: it knows know borders; no region is immune to it.

In 2018, she presented a thematic report on #VAW in politics at the 73 session of GA : ohchr.org/Documents/Issu…

#womeninpolitics #righttosafety #SayNotoViolence #CSW2019
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