The girl's voice dropped to a hush as she remembered the bright, sunny afternoon when she stepped out of her hut and

More than two years after the end of the 30-year war between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil rebels, wome

Despite being denied, again, title to the land on which they have labored, there is no quit in this group of women fr

According to data from the Kosovo Police's Human Rights Department, there were 9,772 police-documented cases of domes

Today we conclude our 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence blog series.

JERUSALEM — The subject of a women's place in public dominated Israel's headlines this week after a series of i

Many Afghan women find themselves suffering from violence and abuse, with virtually no legal protection.

A week of events to highlight human rights issues in the Commonwealth began yesterday with the testimony of Ugandan a

There is a long way to go before the rights of Afghan women are fully protected, says a United Nations report release

Women in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya played a frontline role in bringing down entrenched dictatorships.

After dropping out of school in the sixth grade to help her mother, Fartun Abdi Hashi, 22, was given a second chance

Whenever Marie*, just 16, looks at her lively toddler, Honoré*, she has the most intimate reminder of the 25-y

Nahid Hoseini and Golaleh Kamangar, two exiled Kurdish women fighting for their homeland.

Amnesty International has hailed the award of a prestigious human rights prize to a Syrian activist who was forced in

The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) still in camps in Haiti after their homes were destroyed by last ye

IMAGINE that you're a Somali suffering from the drought and famine in that country.

As Ethiopian women's rights organisations struggle to stay afloat following government legislation that prohibits the

Just as staff at the maternity clinic in the Mae La refugee camp began learning about special care for newborns, a ba

In the heartache and confusion that accompany the flight from drought and hunger, refugees from Somalia can now turn

When a middle-aged mother took a taxi alone from Baghdad to Nasiriyah, about 300 kilometres south earlier this year,