Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has condemned the use of rape as a weapon of terror in conflicts.

It is a dusty but relatively cool Saturday afternoon in the Qatari capital of Doha when I meet Rosie Garthwaite at the headquarters of Al Jazeera English. The news studio where she works as an output producer for the Qatari-owned international news network is half empty after a long, feverish Friday.

Iranian judicial authorities should immediately release two recently detained women's rights activists, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Campaign added that the Judiciary should end the harassment and arbitrary prosecution of citizens engaged in lawful actions aimed at challenging Iran's discriminatory laws.

Pakistani human rights crusader Mukhtar Mai gained international attention in 2002 after she challenged entrenched gender and socio-economic stereotypes in her country, suing the men who gang-raped her on the orders of a village council.

Pakistan's Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan visited Effat University on Tuesday, with the message of women empowerment, and praised the great efforts of Queen Effat, the wife of the late King Faisal, and her vision of educating Saudi women.

On June 13, four women participating in a democracy demonstration at Tahrir Square in Baghdad were molested and beaten allegedly by government sponsored protestors, according to a report on Ms. Magazine's Website.

The four women were part of a 25-woman group from the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, a leading feminist group in the country, which participated in the demonstration.

Within the next three years, the minimum age of Sri Lankan women seeking employment as domestic workers aboard will be increased to 30, Foreign Employment Welfare Minister Dilan Perera said today.

He said this would be the first step in bringing about a complete freeze on Sri Lankan women going abroad for employment as domestic aides.

It is a crime that is perpetrated against the most vulnerable members of the world's most broken societies – one that destroys the lives of its victims and rips apart the fabric of communities.

A platform of left-leaning women associations on Tuesday called upon the government to form a policy that can 'truly ensure equal right for women.'

The leaders of the platform also demanded a 'unified' family law and amendment to the inheritance law incorporating the provision of equal rights for men and women.

Leymah Gbowee from Liberia didn't want the powerful story of Liberian women's peace-making to dominate this morning's round table discussion at the Nobel Women's Initiative conference. The subject was how to get women into negotiations to end conflict. But it was impossible for the Liberian story not to dazzle everyone.