July 26, 2012 (Colombia Reports)
Although Colombia seems to have a number of the right policies for improving gender equality, structural challenges and slow uptake risk making equality a distant goal.
July 24, 2012 (Ethan Freedman for IRIN)
Women across Asia are being shut out from prosperous forestland because of a paradigm geared towards male ownership, according to a new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), an environmental non-governmental organisation.
July 19, 2012 (AllAfrica)
With sacrificing family resources to educate a girl child and a potential future leader still a big societal challenge, any effort to see the education of a girl is a huge boon. So when millions of dollars are poured into the effort, the impact cannot be overemphasised. The Campaign for Female Education (Camfed), introduced some few years back, has seen remarkable change of fortunes to many a rural folk.
July 19, 2012 (Shahira Amin for Al Arabiya News)
For those who launch attacks on journalists to stop the free flow of information, perhaps no message is as fitting as the following words from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda: “You can cut the flower but you cannot stop the coming of spring…”
July 19, 2012 (Women News Network)
(WNN/PI) Santa Domingo, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: With Dominican Republic's national legislation against violence in place, as well as the international laws on human rights, it is clear that the duty to exercise due diligence to prevent, prosecute and punish violence against women should exist. But very little real protection exists for women in reality as many continue to suffer violence on a daily basis as the majority of perpetrators go unpunished.
July 19, 2012 (CNN)
They were only 14 years old, cousins from a small town in central Mexico, when a fun trip to the local fair turned into a nightmare of drugs and forced prostitution.
July 18, 2012 (New York Times)
The government of Mali on Wednesday formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate atrocities attributed to groups of armed rebels, including Islamic extremists, who established a breakaway ministate in the northern half of the country this year.
July 17, 2012 (AllAfrica)
Creating better opportunities for women is key to Africa's economic development, a Nigerian minister said Friday at the opening of a two-day African women's economic summit in Lagos. "If you invest in women, you are investing in humanity," Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a respected economist and a former World Bank managing director, said at the summit's opening.
July 13, 2012 (Foreign Policy)
Hillary Clinton is doing something this weekend that no U.S. secretary of state has ever done: meeting with a democratically elected president of Egypt. The free and fair election that brought Mohamed Morsi to office was a milestone in Egypt's transition to democracy, and Clinton's meeting is an important symbolic gesture to acknowledge his legitimacy as Egypt's new leader.
July 12, 2012 (Human Rights Watch )
India should eliminate coercive female sterilization practices as it implements plans for the expanded contraceptive services it announced at an international conference in London, Human Rights Watch and two reproductive health rights networks, the Coalition Against Two Child Norm and Coercive Population Policiesand CommonHealth Coalition for Maternal-Neonatal Health and Safe Abortions, said today.
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