United Nations: India has questioned the credibility of a UN panel which prepared a report on discrimination against women claiming falsely that women community health workers in India do not get social security benefits.

BJP MP Poonamben Maadam said on Friday, the approach of the working group that prepared the report “is misleading, to say the least, but more gravely, it questions the credibility and veracity of the information and recommendations” in it.

She was speaking at the Interactive Dialogue on Advancement of Women held by the General Assembly’s Third Committee, which deals with social, humanitarian, and cultural issues.

The committee considered the report of the UN’s Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, which singled out India to claim that the nation’s

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