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The five days transformational leadership and character education for peaceful co-existence training ended successfully on Friday.

Held at the Mendana Hotel, the training which was dominated by rural women ended with awarding of certificates.

Kurdish women are getting involved in the peace process to promote a free, equal and democratic society.

Zahra said a neighbor raped her in her home on Friday. It was the most humiliating event in her unremittingly painful life, and the next day she begged her husband, Najibullah, to move their family so the man could not attack her again. He refused.

On Sunday afternoon, she poured kerosene over Najibullah and lit him on fire.

The gruesome rape and hanging of two teenage girls in the populous Uttar Pradesh state again proves how women have become the biggest victims of India's sanitation crisis.

The two girls were going to the fields to defecate when they went missing on Tuesday night.

Nearly half-a-billion Indians - or 48% of the population - lack access to basic sanitation and defecate in the open.

Counterpart International, a global leader in the development of the social sector, announced the official launch of its two-year Women's Peace Building Initiative (WPBI) under a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The launch is taking place in Buka, Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARB) at the Kuri Village Resort on May 20, 2014.

The UN-backed war crimes court in Cambodia has been asked to examine a range of allegations covering the Khmer Rouge's period in power, including the regime's use of sexual violence.

Around two million people are believed to have died during the Khmer Rouge's rule during the late 1970s, most from execution, starvation, disease and overwork.

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In Sri Lanka, formerly friendly neighbours threatened two women with rape after discovering they were a lesbian couple. In the Philippines, several men publicly beat up a transgender woman, cut her hair and threatened her with a gun because “they were offended by her wearing a dress”.

Nepal recently hosted a "Conference on democracy and inclusive good governance for gender equality and sustainable development in South Asia" in capital Kathmandu. The programme opened with the SAARC anthem, a song penned by Kathmandu-based Indian diplomat Abhay Kumar.

NEW DELHI (WOMENSENEWS)--The alleged gang rape of a 32-year-old Muslim woman, associated with the predominantly Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party, by members of her own community last month reportedly as punishment for her political affiliation drew international and national attention, and safety activists are waiting to learn more.