Three years ago, when Indra Bahadur Sinjali of Nawalparasi returned after a weeklong trip to Baglung, daughter Lok Maya was not home. With help from local schoolteacher Yam Gurung, Raju Chhetri had trafficked her to the Indian city of Mumbai.

Chhetri sold Lok Maya for IRs 45,000 to a Mumbai-based trafficking agency which later supplied the girl to the Middle East.

A Sudanese genocide refugee relayed his story of escaping the massacre of his village during a speech on Wednesday, May 4, and called for students to support peace, rather than violence as a method of stopping genocide.

Women lawmakers and four other members of parliament from marginalized and dalit communities obstructed the parliamentary proceedings on Sunday demanding appropriate representation of their communities in the state organs.

Foreign troops must do more to prevent growing rights abuses by Afghan forces including killings and child sex abuse as they prepare to hand over security, a leading charity warned Tuesday.

Sima Samar receives a threatening phone call almost every day because she dares to say women should have rights and murderers should face justice.

The harassment is not from Taliban rebels, but from the former warlords of Hamid Karzai's western-bankrolled government who want her silenced.

Not everyone in Asia-Pacific is benefiting from the region's robust economic growth, among them women stuck in low-wage jobs in farming or services who are usually the first to be laid off, say labor experts.

Although South Africa is the fifth country in the world, and the first in Africa, to legalize gay marriage, it hasn't stopped an increasing number of violent homophobic acts from being committed, namely “corrective rape,” which a 13-year-old lesbian recently became a victim of.

The experts from various countries are preparing as from Tuesday in Luanda the documents to be discussed and approved in the extraordinary meeting of the gender equality ministers of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP), to take place on Wednesday.