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Amrita hopes to create a comprehensive map of the vulnerabilities women face

  Bhavani Rao, director of AMMACHI Labs at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has occupied the first UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment set up...

Amrita introduces innovative, eco-friendly sanitary pads named Saukhyam

“A traditional sanitary napkin has the equivalent of four plastic bags in it. Over a women’s entire menstruating lifetime, she would have used and...

India’s First-ever UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment at Amrita

The United Nations has officially made Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India’s first-ever UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment. The official bestowing of the...

Facebook’s Innovation Challenge Award won by Amrita’s MySangham Skills Portal

MySangham, an online vocational education portal developed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham's research center AMMACHI Labs, was amongst the winners of Facebook’s Internet.org Innovation Challenge in...

UN praises Amrita’s Women Empowerment Project

More than 1,500 women from various parts of India poured into Amritapuri for the two-day event in early May - A Celebration of Empowerment....

Plumber Goddesses of God’s Own Country

The tools in her bag jingle. There is a spring in her step as Jaya Mannan, 42, a resident of Marayoor in Kerala’s Idukki...