The Libyan authorities must end their campaign to discredit Eman al-Obeidi, Amnesty International said today, after the government said she was being sued by the security officials who she says raped her.

San Salvador - El Salvador President, Mauricio Funes inaugurates this Monday the first head office of Women City, a governmental project aimed at giving full support to women.

UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet is expected to be present at the ceremony. Also invited is the general secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women who arrived in El Salvador on Sunday night.

Following weeks of tumult and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, I could not have been more honored to lead my 16 female colleagues in the U.S. Senate in emphasizing the importance of women's rights and political participation. As one unified voice, the 17 of us introduced a resolution calling for women's rights as leaders in North Africa and the Middle East consider constitutional reforms and shape new governments.

During a recent interview with Newsweek magazine in response to the nascent women's-rights movement in Egypt, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, "I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. We see women and girls across the world who are oppressed and violated and demeaned and degraded and denied so much of what they are entitled to as our fellow human beings."

We think small when it comes to women. Micro, to be exact.

With the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, in 1999, the international community agreed on stepping up its efforts to integrate women in peace building and security processes. Eleven years later, most of the commitments made remain to be realised, as a recently published report concludes.

Statement on Women and Human Rights Organizations in Colombia:

Puntland a semi-autonomous state of Somalia's president Abdirahman Mohamed (Farole) opened third Somali women Annual conference in Garowe, the capital city of the state on Monday, Radio Garowe reports.

[In December, Refugee Reports editor Bill Frelick visited Chechnya and Ingushetia, as well as Moscow and Stavropol, to assess conditions for people displaced from the war in Chechnya. This article focuses on his trip to Chechnya's capital, Grozny.]

The U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan should be brought to a halt because it has solidified, rather than weakened, oppression against women in her home country, Afghan human rights activist Malalai Joya said Saturday.