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Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri (born 1952) is a former assistant secretary-general at the United Nations and the former deputy executive director of UN Women. Prior to her 15-year stint at the United Nations, she served as an Indian diplomat for 28 years.
Jan 26, 2024 · Set during the freedom movement, Lakshmi Puri’s Swallowing the Sun (Rs 899, Aleph) is about the encounter of India’s national story with unknown individuals, the constant tussle between revolution and reform, encapsulated in the gaze of Malati, a girl from a Maharashtrian village who grows up to know the cost at which ...
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Ms. Puri is Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, where she leads the Bureau for Intergovernmental Support, United Nations Coordination, and...
Apr 20, 2011 · Ms. Lakshmi Puri has more than 37 years’ experience in economic and development policy-making as well as in political, peace and security, humanitarian and human rights–related diplomacy.
Oct 24, 2016 · UN Women Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi Puri recently received the annual Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award 2016, awarded by the United Nations Association of the United States of America, San Diego Chapter (UNA-USA San Diego), to honour outstanding leaders in the human rights community and to mark the 68th anniversary of the ...
Jun 19, 2013 · Speech by Acting Head of UN Women Lakshmi Puri on Ending Violence against Women and Children at the ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly on 18 June 2013, in Brussels
May 4, 2024 · Lakshmi M Puri speaks to Trisha Mukherjee about writing her debut novel 'Swallowing the Sun' in her 70s, and looking at the freedom struggle with a fresh lens.
