Men slipped into high heels to walk in the Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence in San Jose, California. Proceeds benefited the San Jose YWCA.

Blue jeans will be the style of the day today as Southland residents take part in Denim Day in LA & USA, a campaign to raise awareness about rape and sexual violence.

My Sunday column looks at human trafficking — but in America. This is a subject I've written about a good deal in Cambodia, India, Pakistan and elsewhere abroad, and there's sometimes a tendency to think that the problem just exists overseas, or just among foreign women smuggled in the the U.S. It's true that the worst places in the world for forced prostitution maybe Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Burma, and so on.

Merely reporting on violence against women cannot put an end to this “heinous crime”. Instead, changing mindsets and the social outlook of people can help make a big difference.

The majority of Ethiopia's population live in rural areas and when they are ill many do not seek medical advice, but a new government programme hopes to change this at a local level.

Eynalem Taye is 23-years-old, but her tiny frame makes her look like a slight teenager.

Somali women from South-Central, Puntland and Somaliland came together.

Opponents of immigration often prefer to ignore the tragic forces that compel people to risk death in order to reach our lands of plenty, not to mention the horrors that often await the “lucky” few, once they do arrive. Imagine an Underground Railroad in which the conductor robs and rapes his passengers, and the station porter, once they've disembarked, ushers them into a new form of slavery.

Dear friends,

It's been a long and difficult road for Sierra Leone to emerge from the shadows of its decade-long civil war, it's been an even longer journey for Sierra Leonean women to make their voices heard. But now things are changing...

What is Girls day?

Every fourth Thursday of April technical enterprises, enterprises with technical departments and trainings, universities and research centers all over the World open their doors to primary school students.