Bangladesh's rights leaders have joined in the call of the neighbouring India for an end to crimes against women.

The conflict in the Eastern DR Congo provinces of North and South Kivu between the Kinshasa government and the M23 mo

The Knesset Election Committee will discuss the possibility of disqualifying Hareidi parties because they have no wom

Several Gender Based Violence (GBV) campaigners, predominately women, have made a commitment to continue the fight by

Women have been involved in terrorist activities for more than 100 years, but from 2007 to 2008 there was an 800 perc

It is also quite common to see masked women (commonly called “Bondo devils”) in their traditional red and

Jewish women endure arrests, heckling and legal battles in struggle to attain what they consider their inalienable ri

It's a country the size of all of western Europe, with enormous mineral riches that enable the artifacts of modern li

Women in Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are calling on President Barack Obama to lend resources and

A new report released by the UN says Afghan women are still victims of abuse despite some success by authorities in p

Zainab Bangura has taken over one of the United Nations' most thankless top positions: tackling a world's worth of ho

It seemed like a case of simple blackmail.

Gender equality is an issue that is afforded a significant amount of attention right now in Ethiopia.

Sexual violence is on the rise as armed groups continue to move across the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's (DR

On November 22nd, the International Criminal Court (ICC) unsealed the indictment of Simone Gbagbo, wife of the former

In Egypt, domestic abuse is not a crime. When a woman is beaten by her husband, the authorities are seldom called.

As unrest unfolds in the Middle East, a traveling art exhibition at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln seems all th

The Commissioner of Yei County in South Sudan's Central Equatoria State, Juma David Augustine, said on Tuesday that h

Marched through the middle a market in Damascus carrying red banners that read 'Stop all military operations in Syria

On Sunday November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the start of the annual 1

The UN Women Executive Director, Michelle Bachelet has called on governments to employ effective means to fight viole

A 22-member Women's Interest Group on November 22 presented a communiqué calling on President Ellen Johnson Si

On the first day of the Eid el-Fitr celebrations, Cairo's Nile River promenade's sidewalks were crowded, and packed w

New fighting and a crackdown on women not wearing veils by Islamist militants has marred peace moves by two rival gro