“India has a robust judiciary and there are good laws that can protect rights of women and improve gender equality but it needs to be implemented better,” said United Nations’ top women’s rights official Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Tuesday. She signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC) to accelerate efforts to empower women. While speaking with HT on gender equality in India, the UN Women Executive Director said that unless the existing laws are implemented properly, creating more laws for women would be of little benefit. Talking about the laws that are already being implemented, Mlambo-Ngcuka said that the “introduction of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 is a move in the right direction”. 

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