As part of its campaign to reduce injustice and increase Access to Justice (AtoJ) for women in Sierra Leone, ActionAid Sierra Leone has convened one day advocacy dialogue on safety and security for women accessing justice in Freetown on Monday October 24, 2011.

In Kenya, a Cabinet task force is grappling with how to implement a constitutional requirement that women comprise at least one-third of the country's Parliament.
Currently, the parliament consists of 222 members. But only 22, or 10 percent, are women.

Violence against women is an abuse of fundamental human rights, says Australia's Head of Mission, Judith Robinson. She said there was evidence to suggest that violence against women negates every area of development activity.

"It impacts on women's health and it also impacts on the ability of women to actively participate in the economic, political and social activities within their community," she said.

In the immediate aftermath of this spring's revolution, something new and unfamiliar happened in Egypt: women and men participated equally in political events.

International women peace activists from Fiji, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Philippines gathered in New York on the heels of the Occupy Wall Street Movement are determined to monitor and intervene in the UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security this Friday. On the eve of the UN debate, a roundtable discussion will reaffirm their claim that it is time to invest in non violence not militarization:

The World Bank has amplified its rhetoric on the importance of gender equality in the context of development in recent weeks by promoting its flagship World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development and launching its Think Equal social media campaign.

Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making polite conversation when she asked an Ethiopian teenager about her wedding day.

The 16-year-old had already been married a year.

"She looked at me with the saddest eyes and said, 'I had to drop out of school,'" Robinson said in a telephone interview.

Socioeconomic experts on Saturday called for including Middle East and North African (MENA) women and the young generation in the economy so as to achieve cross-sector development.

During a session titled: “Linking trade to development”, held under the World Economic Forum, the experts discussed means to better leverage regional and global trade to restart growth and drive economic and social development.

A report published in conjunction with a human rights conference to be held in Gambia from 24 October to 7 November paints a bleak picture of the plight of women in North Sudan, reserving caveated optimism for South Sudan.

Women of Jammu and Kashmir from both the sides of the Line of Control (LoC) expressed their desire for peace, security and economic stability in the region and demanded an immediate end to the protracted conflict.

The women during a two-day intra-Kashmir conference held at Gulmarg demanded their participation in all the peace-building initiatives and peace negotiations on Kashmir.