{"id":9567,"date":"2022-10-17T02:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:37:42","slug":"international-day-of-rural-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-day-of-rural-women\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Rural Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About International Day of Rural Women:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It focuses on gender equality and women empowerment in rural areas.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is to celebrate and highlight their achievements and contributions towards rural development and agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>The theme for International Day of Rural Women 2022 is &#8220;Rural Women, key for a world free from hunger and poverty\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>History:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In the year 1995, the\u00a0<strong>Fourth World Conference on Women was conducted in Beijing<\/strong>, China, and the main topic of discussion was the empowerment of women.<\/li>\n<li>It was when the UN suggested that 15 October could be observed as International Day of Rural Women to appreciate the contribution of rural women in agriculture, food production, and food safety.<\/li>\n<li>It was on 18 December 2007 when the\u00a0<strong>UN declared that October 15<\/strong>\u00a0would be observed annually as International Day of Rural Women worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=International-Day-of-Rural-Women-being-celebrated&amp;id=449410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Day of Rural Women focuses on gender equality and women empowerment in rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}