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'''''Women's Feature Service''''' (WFS) is an Indian women's news agency and [[magazine]], based in [[New Delhi]], [[India]]. Established in 1978 by [[UNESCO]],<ref name="MicrofilmsInternational1991">{{cite book|title=Dissertation abstracts international: The humanities and social sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7XEvAQAAIAAJ|access-date=18 June 2012|year=1991|publisher=University Microfilms International}}</ref> it deals with a wide range of feminist issues and social, economic, political, and health issues surrounding women and women in popular culture such as film and the arts. ''Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999'' describes the WFS as a "woman-managed global news agency that specializes in news feature stories about women and development, primarily in nations of the southern hemisphere."<ref name="Byerly2000">{{cite book|first=Carolyn M.|last=Byerly|editor-first=Elizabeth V. |editor-last=Burt|title=Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wfj4PW607UYC&pg=PA265|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30661-7|pages=265–272|chapter=Women's Feature Service, 1978–Present}}</ref> ''People & Planet'' says "This Delhi-based feature service provides news, features and opinions from a gender perspective, including items relating to women's reproductive health. Fresh updates from around the world every week. Women's Feature Service markets articles to print publications and websites."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peopleandplanet.net/?lid=28385&section=49&topic=31|title=Women's Feature Service|publisher=People & Planet|access-date=18 June 2012}}</ref><br />
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The WFS also produces about 250-300 feature stories a year to major publications across the world including the ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' of India, ''[[Far Eastern Economic Review]]'' of Hong Kong, ''[[The Men's Zone]]'' of the Philippines, and the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' of the United States.<ref name="Byerly2000"/><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://wfsnews.org/ Official site]<br />
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