Imagine you're a highly motivated doctor working at a hospital in Liberia providing maternal health care. Imagine that, despite your medical training years ago, today you encounter a complicated post-partum hemorrhage and can't remember how to treat it. You have no one to ask because you are the only obstetrician in the hospital. You know you will lose the patient, but there's nothing you can do.

The Obama administration reportedly says we can no longer make women's rights a priority in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, former President George W. Bush says we have to stay and fight in Afghanistan to help women gain rights.

TIME named Ms. Bineta Diop, Found and Executive Director of Femmes Africa Solidarite (FAS), to the 2011 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Ms. Diopr of Senegal has led numerous peacebuilding initiatives in Africa with a focus on the protection of women during armed conflicts and their inclusion in peace process.

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Effectiveness of Violence Against Women Legislation: Ley General De Acceso de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia (Law for General Access of Women to a Life Free from Violence)

Pakistan will host the 7th meeting of the women speakers from around the world in November this year.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, the beleaguered president of Yemen, should have known better. Fighting for his political life (and perhaps for his physical life too), he played the woman card. After last Friday's prayers, he tried to dampen down the escalating protests against his rule by admonishing women to stay home. He claimed that their presence in the streets, “mingling with men,” was against Islam. His ploy backfired.

KSSO and Kurdish Association would like to cordially invite you to Kurdish Studies forthcoming book launch and seminar

Women's education around the world has become an objective for many organizations across the globe. From UNICEF to the Nike Foundation, organizations are committed to the education and future well-being of girls in the world's most war-torn and impoverished regions, the breeding ground of extremism.

“Various forms of discrimination against women not only exist in all societies, but are even codified by the very governments which should be fighting that injustice.” (Sarah Jones in Women Can't Wait)

Countries around the world have a variety of laws discriminating against women, ranging from age of marriage, nationality, freedom of movement to the right to divorce, work and retire under the same conditions as men.

"He grabbed me, stuck a gun to me. Then he and several men raped me near my daughter." Sexual assaults against women in Haiti have reached epidemic proportions since the country's devastating earthquake in January 2010.