Nawal Al Saadawi has been at the lead of the fight for rights for women for decades, and like many here was exhilarat

This week I was invited to an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting in the Austrian cap

At an event in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office last night, the foreign secretary will launch a high-profile new i

At least 600 Ugandan girls have been forced into Malaysia's sex trade in what has become a human trafficking epidemic

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

As many as 68 per cent of women in the Middle East and North Africa feel that they are treated equally to men at work

The "Arab Spring" has received copious attention in the American media, but one of its crucial elements has

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Arab women were integral players in the post-colonial revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, but soon lost groun

Hoda Gameel is 22 and one of the millions of women in Egypt thrust by need and circumstance into the world of work.

Afghan women walk past a guesthouse damaged a day after the suicide attacks in Kabul, 27 Feb. 2010

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that full empowerment of women requires expanding economic opportun

At the end of September 2009, two sharply contrasting events coincided: the United States Secretary of State Hillary

Violence against women and girls is a virulent form of abuse and discrimination that transcends race, class and natio