Women's political participation in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia is to be enhanced under a new United Nations-backed p

Gender activists from East and Southern Africa have expressed shock at the backward trends in the 50/50 campaign in r

The UN Security Council faces a Srebrenica moment when it votes on December 21st to renew the mandate for MONUC, its

A war is raging in the eastern part of the country, once the centre stage for battles during the 10-year civil war an

The atmosphere is heavily charged with political tensions, alliances are already in the offing, expectations are h

Why are you raping us and raping kids? If you cannot propose, come to us women, we will connect you.

"When the tenth man finished raping me they said they were going to rape my daughter.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — Several hundred women, many holding aloft pictures of relatives killed by d

According to the Zimbabwe Rape Survivors Association, during last year's highly contested presidential election an es

A landmark UN treaty on women's rights, which will be 30 years old next week, is in danger of being politically under

Afghan women are among the worst off in the world, violence against them is "endemic" and Afghanistan's gov

Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, women and girls suffer high levels of violence and discrimination and have

Cases of gender-based sexual violence are higher in the Great Lakes region than any other part of the world, regional

Mouctar Diallo, vice-president of Guinea's national human rights commission, was arrested on 26 Novem

Thirty years after an international treaty banning discrimination against women came into force, women and girls are

"The press will change when they cease to report exclusively from a masculine point of view," Peru's deputy

Many Iraqi women refugees, sheltered temporarily in Syria, bear the scars and trauma of extreme violence suffered in

Most or all of the 22 women among the 57 people massacred Monday in the southern Philippines were sexually mutilated,

As the world waits for President Barack Obama to announce next week his plan to send up to 30,000 additional U.S.

Gender activists foresee a drop in female parliamentarians after Namibia's general and presidential elections on Nove

Guinean soldiers raped at least 100 women during a crackdown on protesters in September, a human righ

This country was selected due to the growing violence against women, with the aim to give this issue more attention a

Following the chain of events that leads to something good is almost as inspirational as the good thing itself.

The United Nations announced Tuesday $10.5 million in new grants to bolster international efforts to end violence aga