Something is seriously out of tune here. Thailand's National Security Council (NSC) is calling for the repatriation of refugees along the Thai-Burma border, but the Shan community, in its latest report, denounced the ongoing Burmese offensive against civilians, including the shelling of Buddhist temples, gang-rape and using women as cannon fodder.

A senior commissioner has urged President Benigno Aquino III to appoint a woman to the remaining vacancy in the Commision on Elections (Comelec).

Ministers from Asian labor-sending countries meeting in Dhaka this week should together endorse protections for migrant workers, Human Rights Watch, Migrant Forum in Asia, and CARAM Asia said in a briefing paper released today. They should give priority to protecting migrant domestic workers, who are at especially high risk of abuse, and to ending recruitment-related exploitation, the organizations said.

Horrifying accounts of the systematic use of gang rape as a weapon of war by fighters loyal to dictator Colonel Gaddafi have emerged from Libya. Women have been violated in front of their own children - and some have asked their relatives to kill them rather than face Gaddafi's men.

More than 100 female business and political leaders gathered in Harare for a three-day international conference on "Women's Economic and Political Empowerment and Peace Building".

The event was held at the five-star Harare International Conference Centre (HICC), currently undergoing a major million-dollar spruce-up.

The two women from Egypt had just started their presentation Monday when Leymah Gbowee spoke up from the audience. "I'm sorry to break up this meeting, but I cannot contain my joy," said the peace activist from Liberia. "The president of Ivory Coast has just been captured!'"

The two women from Egypt had just started their presentation Monday when Leymah Gbowee spoke up from the audience. “I'm sorry to break up this meeting, but I cannot contain my joy,'' said the peace activist from Liberia. “The president of Ivory Coast has just been captured!''

Refugee women have expressed concern that perpetrators of crimes, in particular sexual violence and rape, are left to commit the crimes with impunity.

Today, U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced that he has co-sponsored two pieces of legislation designed to reduce the significant gap that continues to exist between wages earned by men and women in the United States. In New Jersey, on average, women working full time earn $13,500 less than full-time working men in the state.

Women from all the main parties are set to join forces next week — to demand an increase in females in the next Assembly.

Yet only one in six candidates fighting it out for the 108 seats are women — a marginal drop compared to the last Stormont election.

Women now represent a slight majority in the province (51%) even before the next census figures are revealed.