The Pew Research Center recently released a new Global Attitudes Project survey that found of the 12 countries for which Pew provided corresponding data, the female-male gap approving of U.S. drone strikes ranged from 31 percent in Japan to 13 percent in Uganda. When the same question was asked in 2012, the female-male gap similarly ran from 30 percent in Germany to 12 percent in Poland.

Statement by Lakshmi Puri, Acting Head of UN Women and Assistant Secretary-General, on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, 9 August 2013.

Remarks
Kelly Clements
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
As-Prepared for a Panel Discussion at Event Sponsored by Women's Refugee Commission, Equality Now, and InterAction
Washington, DC

"War is terrible for children and other living things." That's what the Vietnam-era poster used to say. Sadly, not much has changed since then. Women and children living in regions of armed conflict worldwide face distinct and significant economic, personal, and emotional struggles during war and in its aftermath.

On the African continent, where the majority of the population subsists from agriculture, only 18% of farmland is owned by women. In Côte d'Ivoire, the world's top producer of cacao and cashews, a woman is usually obliged to make arrangements with her family or husband in order to cultivate food crops.

Grahamstown — Tomorrow we celebrate Women's Day by commemorating the 20 000 women of 9 August 1956.

However, 2013 marks a number of other important anniversaries for South Africa: the first anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, 100 years since the very first anti-pass march lead by women of Bothaville and Bloemfontein in 1913, and 100 years since the colonial government passed the Native Land Act.

“Whether it's ending conflict, managing a transition, or rebuilding a country, the world can no longer afford to continue ignoring half the population.”
– Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, December 19, 2011

Ondjiva — A team of parliamentary women is since Monday in southern Cunene province, to assess the situation of drought hitting the region since May this year, Angop learnt.

The delegation is being led by the head of the women parliamentarian team, Candida Celeste, and took a donation of foodstuffs to assist the victims.

The official handed over some of those goods to Ondjiva main hospital, the capital of the province.

When did it become cliché to say that you want “world peace”? Probably for as long as anyone can remember.

Human rights and development responses to violence against women Ending Violence against Women: A Challenge for Development, this book was written by Francine Pickup with Suzanne Williams and Caroline Sweetman and published by OXFAM GB.