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Since 6th July 2012 a women delegation, with 12 participants from England and Germany in total, has been in North Kurdistan. Amongst the participants are representatives of different women's rights and human rights organisations, as well as the well-known trade unionist and member of the women's committee of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Professor Mary Davis. The delegation was initiated by the Kurdish Women's Office for Peace (Ceni) and supported by the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign in London, in order to give the work of the women's academies a wider publicity; to strengthen the exchanges between women's projects, women's rights and human rights initiatives in Kurdistan and Europe, and to learn from each other; as well as to show practical international solidarity in the face of the increased repression by the Turkish state against the women's movement and trade union movement.

SECURICO, the company that Zimbabwe's Divine Ndhlukula started in her cottage in the late 1990s with four employees and very little capital, has become one of her country's largest security firms. According to her, perhaps the biggest barrier she had to face when she set it up was her gender.

While election rules guarantee female candidates places on party lists, a strong current of social and religious conservatism means their role in politics is still questioned by many Libyans.

When rich countries like the U.S., Japan, and NATO nations get together periodically to discuss the future of development funding for Afghanistan, who represents the interests of women and children who actually live there?

Participants of a national consultation have demanded representation of female political workers in all party ranks to ensure women's true participation in the political process.

At least 43 vulnerable women in Ndera Sector, Gasabo District have successfully completed a nine month training course in tailoring and basket weaving.

Correctional Services Solomon Islands (CSSI) will launch its first gender audit report at a special event in Honiara on Monday 18 June 2012.

Police union 'insulted' by Jacob Zuma's political appointment of ANC member and former social worker

When Indonesian forces invaded Timor-Leste in 1975, Maria De Fatima Kalcona hid in the jungle with resistance fighters, but after years on the move, and hobbled by a gunshot wound, she was eventually captured in 1979.

From the very beginning of his administration, President Barack Obama has put women at the heart of United States foreign policy, says Melanne Verveer, the United States Ambassador-at-large for Global Women's Issues. And that is because the most pressing global problems cannot be solved without the participation of women.