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Avabai Bomanji Wadia

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Avabai Bomanji Wadia (born 18 September 1913) was a Sri Lankan born naturalised Indian social worker, writer and the founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Family Planning Association of India, two non governmental organisations working to promote sexual health and family planning. [1]

36 relations: All India Women's Conference, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Educational Trust, British Ceylon, Cambridge, Colombo, Commonwealth countries league, Dhanvanthi Rama Rau, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, England, Fabian Society, Family planning, Family Planning Association of India, Five-Year Plans of India, Government of India, Gujarat, High Court of Justice, India, Indian National Congress, Inns of Court, International Alliance of Women, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Jawaharlal Nehru, List of first women lawyers and judges by nationality, Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Sanger, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Non-governmental organization, Padma Shri, Parsi, Political radicalism, Progressivism, Queens Park Community School, Reproductive health, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sri Lanka, Sri Venkateswara University.

All India Women's Conference

The All India Women's Conference (AIWC) is a non-governmetal organisation (NGO) based in Delhi.

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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Educational Trust

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is an Indian educational trust.

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British Ceylon

Ceylon (Sinhala: බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ලංකාව, Brithānya Laṃkāva; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, Birithaniya Ilangai) was a British Crown colony between 1815 and 1948.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

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Commonwealth countries league

The "Commonwealth Countries League" (CCL) is a voluntary pan-Commonwealth civil society organisation.

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Dhanvanthi Rama Rau

Dhanvanthi, Lady Rama Rau (1893–1987) was founder and president of the Family Planning Association of India.

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Elise Ottesen-Jensen

Elise Ottesen-Jensen, also known as Ottar, (2 January 1886 − 4 September 1973) was a Norwegian-Swedish sex educator, journalist and anarchist agitator, whose main mission was to fight for women's rights to understand and control their own body and sexuality.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.

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Family planning

Family planning services are defined as "educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved".

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Family Planning Association of India

The Family Planning Association of India, abbreviated as FPA India, is a registered charity in India.

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Five-Year Plans of India

From 1947 to 2017, the Indian economy was premised on the concept of planning.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Inns of Court

The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales.

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International Alliance of Women

The International Alliance of Women (IAW; Alliance Internationale des Femmes, AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's human rights around the world, focusing particularly on empowerment of women and development issues and more broadly on gender equality.

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International Planned Parenthood Federation

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global non-governmental organisation with the broad aims of promoting sexual and reproductive health, and advocating the right of individuals to make their own choices in family planning.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.

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List of first women lawyers and judges by nationality

This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in each country.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Margaret Sanger

Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (محمد علی جناح ALA-LC:, born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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Padma Shri

Padma Shri (also Padma Shree) is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Parsi

A Parsi (or Parsee) means "Persian" in the "Persian Language", which today mainly refers to a member of a Zoroastrian community, one of two (the other being Iranis) mainly located in India, with a few in Pakistan.

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Political radicalism

The term political radicalism (in political science known as radicalism) denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary or other means and changing value systems in fundamental ways.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Queens Park Community School

Queens Park Community School (commonly abbreviated to QPCS) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Queen's Park, north west London, in the borough of Brent, England.

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Reproductive health

Within the framework of the World Health Organization's (WHO) definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene, addresses the reproductive processes, functions and system at all stages of life.

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sri Venkateswara University

Sri Venkateswara University (commonly referred to as S. V. University or SVU) is a state university in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avabai_Bomanji_Wadia

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