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March 08, 2013 (Huffington Post)
March 8 marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, a celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women past and present that is observed around the world.
March 08, 2013 (Associated Press)
Walk among the plastic tents in one corner of this sprawling, dust-swept desert camp packed with Syrian refugees, and a young woman in a white headscarf signals.
March 08, 2013 (Washington Post )
Reeva Steenkamp, the model and law graduate shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius, was statistically just one of three women killed on Valentine's Day by an intimate partner, according to a study on violence against women that damns South Africa as having “the highest rate ever reported in research anywhere in the world.”
March 07, 2013 (tolonews)
Afghan women continue to face serious threats and injustice despite massive efforts at both a countrywide and international level to improve their situation.
March 04, 2013 (USAID)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with partner Heartland Alliance International has been strengthening the leadership of grassroots women in Haiti to engage in and advocate for redevelopment with the vision of a country where women participate in home, public and economic life free from the threat of harassment and violence.
March 01, 2013 (BBC News India)
There have been violent protests in the Indian capital, Delhi, after reports that a seven-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at school.
March 01, 2013 (Guardian)
People who were sexually abused in Kenya's 2007 post-election violence are still seeking justice as the next vote nears
March 01, 2013 (Voice of America News)
In the lead up to Women's Day, on March 8, Liberia has become the latest nation to sign a pledge to end violence against women and girls. In Dakar, the human-rights group U.N. Women says nearly 100 countries have no specific legal provisions against domestic violence.
March 01, 2013 (UN News Centre)
A senior United Nations official today welcomed the recent decision by Cambodia's genocide tribunal to annul a previous ruling that would have prevented it from trying crimes of sexual violence committed during the Khmer Rouge regime.
February 28, 2013 (Democratic Voice of Burma)
Ma-Ubin residents said riot police incited the violence that led to rioting in the Irrawaddy Delta township on Tuesday night, while a government media outlet blamed protestors for attacking police officers.
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