Something that gets lost in all the coverage of the Haiti earthquake is how people on the ground organize in the face

Living under tents, female survivors of the earthquake may no longer be openly mourning the tragic loss of their husb

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Oberlene Smith-Whyte, is making an impact as a United Nations peacekeeper, win

“Sexual Assaults Add to Miseries of Haiti's Ruins” (front page, June 24) was timely.

The 22-year-old woman, wearing a gauzy blue dress that she had changed into after her release, spoke in a whispery vo

The list of what needs to be fixed in Haiti is distressingly long, and progress has been frustratingly slow.

UNIFEM programmes in Haiti to assist survivors of gender-based violence received a boost from a recent

IT'S normal, an aid worker told her, not to menstruate after suffering severe trauma such as enduring an earthquake.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar may never want the year 2010 to end.

Thousands of women living in temporary camps around Haiti are threatened by sexual violence and have inadequate prote

What do women fishing, school building and better farming skills have to do with U.S. national security?

The voices of Haitian women and their families were highlighted at a side event in relation to the Commission on the

It is with tremendous sadness that UNIFEM learned about the deaths of several women leaders from governmental and civ

Latin America and the Caribbean is a dangerous place for women.

Shockingly high levels of violence against women in Haiti forced the U.N.

Miles away from the red zone, surrounded by the vibrant green of Ortinola, Maracas, women from 17 countries hosted a

Latin America is home to some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world and women's organizations have fough