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Selvi was married off at the age of 14, after which she was beaten and abused by her older husband. She managed to escape her marriage and became the first female taxi driver in the state of Karnataka.
Selvi is the first female taxi driver in the South Indian Karnataka. A documentary about her, Driving with Selvi, is currently showing at film festivals.
Plaintiff's lawyers Sylvie Galley and Randall Schwerdorffer, and defence lawyer Jacqueline Laffont arrive at the Doubs court on the final day of Chilean Nicolas Zepeda's trial, accused of murdering his Japanese ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki in December 2016. IMAGES
Spotify is celebrating female artists across their playlists and podcasts as part of International Women's Day'.
Ahead of International Women's Day (March 8th), Nissan celebrates two women in design - pioneers of the bold new look and feel of the Nissan JUKE.Drawing on more than 30 years of collective experience, Nissan Colour Manager, Lesley Busby and Nissan Colour, Material and Finish Designer, Carine Giachetti, take inspiration from the world around them, helping them to bring the colour to a masterpiece that was several years in the making.
Lima, Dec 16 (EFE) .- Fernanda Kanno, the first Peruvian woman to run and finish the Dakar, will be the only female representative of the Americas at the premiere of the toughest rally in the world, in Saudi Arabia, a country where only a year and a half ago women were forbidden to drive.(CAMARA: Mikhail Huacan)SOUNDBITES: FERNANDA KANNOTRANSLATION"This adventure of running the Dakar, for me, does not happen so much for the fact of being a woman, but for the fact of being a person like any other who fulfills her dreams. I really appreciate being the first Peruvian woman who runs the Dakar, the first Peruvian woman who finished it, and that many women say: 'OK, we are achieving things, we will be united, if Fernanda can then many women can achieve things that were always denied to us or that we always thought that were not possible, but I hope the world one day will be so beautiful that we will stop talking about men and women and just talk about people. Everyone’s goal I think should be that, instead of highlighting things because of the fact that I’m a woman, highlight things by the fact that we are people with big dreams, but that can be fulfilled "