In the documentary, Ugandan women tricked into domestic slavery in Iraq, the BBC's Anna Cavell investigates how a group of 147 Ugandan women were lured into Iraq.

The women were told they would get decent jobs with the U.S. military. Instead, they found themselves working as slaves, subject to violence and even rape. Eventually, they were rescued by an unlikely pair -- a Ugandan security guard and an American military officer.

It was an impressive line-up of speakers, by any standard. Organizers of the annual AIPAC policy conference, which ended Tuesday in Washington, managed to book the President of the United States, Prime Minister of Israel and top Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress.

But there was an obvious omission from AIPAC's stage: a woman.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character” Martin Luther King!

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or colour is like living in Alaska and being against snow” ~ William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters

I was privileged to sit in on an intimate lunch with Anuradha Koirala, the founder of Maiti Nepal. The foundation has rescued 12,000 Nepali girls and young women from sex trafficking, many who were sold across the border to brothels in India. Koirala was also the CNN Hero for 2010.

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Cape Town, South Africa: October 6-7, 2011

Women took a walk for a special cause Saturday morning and it was deemed a major success.

The inaugural Red Pashmina Walk took place along the Millenium Trail and around the neighbourhood from Millenium Park with the start at the Silver Bean Café.

The Egyptian Coalition for Civil Education and Women's Participation

The cancellation of Women's Quota without alternative legal methods that guarantee women's political participation is pushing women back to the zero point

Twenty-six people, mostly women, sat down to dinner last night in a Lorne Park home to support the education of Afghan women and girls.

Breaking Bread for Women in Afghanistan is a national fundraiser that encourages women to host potluck dinners and ask guests to donate money to help pay the salary, for one year, of a teacher for Afghan women and girls.