BlaBlaCar Apps

BlaBlaCar is a trusted community marketplace that connects drivers with empty seats to passengers looking for a ride. Over 2 million people use BlaBlaCar every month creating an entirely new, people powered, transport network. With a dedicated customer service, a state of the art web and mobile platform, and a fast-growing community of users, BlaBlaCar is making travel social, money-saving and more efficient for millions of members.

1. Find a ride

Just enter your departure and arrival points and your travel date, then choose a driver offering a ride going your way.


2. Get in touch

Click on Contact Driver button and then contact your driver via phone or private message to book your seat with them.

3. Travel together

Be at the planned meeting point on time! Remember to bring exact change so you can pay your driver the agreed contribution during your trip.

                                                          Trust, Safety & Insurance

There are three important ways in which we create the environment for a secure car sharing community. First, member identities are authentic. Second, the community self-moderates, using profiles and ratings to evaluate members and vet those that do not respect the BlaBlaCar spirit of positive community collaboration. Third, BlaBlaCar has a dedicated Member Relations team, available every day to support users, so you always get the best experience out of BlaBlaCar.

Insurance

Passengers contributions to drivers do not generate profit, they only offset costs, therefore car sharing is not ever hire and reward. All the members of the Association of British Insurers have agreed that if your passengers contribute towards your running costs your insurance cover will not be affected. Rides must only be given in a vehicle seating eight passengers or less. BlaBlaCar scrupulously fulfills these conditions, as we limit number of seats and cap price per passengers (basing calculations on HM Revenue & Customs Approved Mileage Payment Allowance).

                                  Confidentiality

BlaBlaCar needs your phone number to verify your identity and to send you notifications when you plan a car share. But this doesn’t mean anyone will be calling you on it! Whether you prefer to receive emails or just don’t have time to take calls, enabling the Hidden Number Option means your number will NOT be shown to members on your profile. And thanks to our internal messaging service, you can talk to any member without ever disclosing your email address either. When a member writes to you, you’ll get a nice email from us, letting you know that you have a message available in your member space. It’s simple and all your details remain strictly confidential.

INDIAN WOMEN RIGHTS

The court said there was no reason a qualified female make-up artists should be banned from film sets.India's Supreme Court has said that a 59-year-old union ban on female make-up artists in the country's film industry is illegal and must be lifted.

Two judges said the gender discrimination was unconstitutional. A powerful trade union has long argued that men needed the jobs.
Women may work as hair-stylists on film sets but any who have tried to do make-up were threatened or even assaulted.
India has one of the world's biggest movie and TV entertainment industries.
Nine women petitioned the Supreme Court in January 2013. On Monday, judges said the film set ban was "constitutionally impermissible discrimination".

"How can this discrimination continue? We will not permit this. It cannot be allowed under our constitution. Why should only a male artist be allowed to put make-up?" Justices Dipak Misra and UU Lalit were quoted as saying in the Indian Express newspaper.

"We don't see a reason to prohibit a woman from becoming a make-up artist if she is qualified."
Even top directors and actors couldn't break the rule that women couldn't be make-up artists. One actress I spoke to said it wasn't comfortable for women to get their body make-up done by men, but they really had no choice.
Producers who defied this rule had to pay hefty fines and artists were denied credits on the film titles. Women make-up artists were sometimes brought on the sets surreptitiously, hidden in mobile beauty salons known as vanity vans for fear that if the trade unions got wind of it the production would be brought to a halt.

The livelihoods of thousands of women make-up artists have been affected. Instead of doing the work of their choice, they've been restricted mainly to weddings and fashion shows - but Bollywood is the bigger business to be in and the Supreme Court's move should finally end this gender bias.line

The court told India's Cine Costume Make-up Artists and Hair Dressers Association to end its ban on female make-up artists immediately - or it would order it to do so.

"We are in 2014, not in 1935. Such things cannot continue even for a day," the judges said.
One of the petitioners, Charu Khurana, said she had learnt make-up from a school in California, but she was barred from working in Bollywood.

"I have worked on a couple of films but it has been tough. The unions are strong and come to the set to stop the film [when they find out that women make-up artists have been employed]. Producers have to pay fines," Ms Khurana told the BBC.

"Lots of women make-up artists want to work in the films. And female actors would also find it convenient and comfortable if their make-up was done by a woman," she said.








Most women who are trained in make-up end up working for fashion shows and commercials and doing bridal make-up for a living.
The court gave the union a week to respond. A final hearing is to take place on 17 November.

The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia.From equal status with men in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period,to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of women in India has been eventful. In modern India, women have held high offices in India including that of the President, Prime Minister, Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Leader of the Opposition.

As of 2011, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of the parliament) were women. However, women in India continue to face atrocities such as rape, acid throwing, dowry killings, and the forced prostitution of young girls.According to a global poll conducted by Thomson Reuters, India is the "fourth most dangerous country" in the world for women,and the worst country for women among the G20 countries.