There would you go for assistance if you were the victim of rape?

This was the question posed to a diverse group of Harare-based Zimbabweans recently. What should have yielded simple answers instead drew blank stares, confused mumbles - and finally, the admission from all but one that they weren't aware of any existing services in the city.

Business has always been a boy's game; suits, cigars and power lunches, with mistresses as well as money to boot.

Over the last 60 years, however, the rules have changed, with more women joining the workforce and doing so in fields long considered the preserve of the “stronger” sex.

Disability access, environment management, women and children's health issues, and improving health service delivery to senior citizens topped the list of human security and development priorities raised by twenty three local women leaders in Nadi during a new interactive policy dialogue with the Nadi Town Council Special Administrator Aisea Tuidraki and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Terence O'Neill this week.

The road to safety does not always guarantee deliverance, especially not for many women refugees fleeing conflict in the Horn of Africa.

Increasing cases of sexual abuse against women refugees en route to sanctuary in Egypt and Israel have raised concerns about providing victims with proper mental health care to survive not only the psychological remnants of rape, but also the resultant stigma.

UN agencies are concerned about the soaring figure of 1,750 conflict affected families in Mohmand Agency, Fata. This figure is likely to go up to 5,000 families according to the Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA), The Express Tribune has learnt.

Ten years after the Security Council called for greater involvement of women in peacebuilding, United Nations peacekeeping missions have a mixed record and need to deploy greater efforts to reach the goal, according to a study launched today.

U.S. Army veteran Susan Avila-Smith runs the military sexual trauma advocacy group VETWOW, or Veteran Women Organizing Women, based in Seattle. Sadly, it's a group that numbers 3,000 and is growing.

Avila-Smith has been advocating for military sexual trauma victims since 1995, after the military refused to punish her Army ex-husband after he "jumped up and down" on her pregnant stomach and ended her pregnancy.

A convenor of a non-governmental organization of Filipinos of mostly Muslim heritage on Monday expressed that Muslim women “are largely excluded from formal peace talks.”

The sensitization workshop took place at the Kenema District Youth center along Reservation road in Kenema city. The workshop attracted 100 participants from various youth and women groups drawn from five chiefdoms including, Nongowa, Kandu Leppiama, Dama, Lower Bambara, Simbaru and Small Bo.

Afghanistan's government is considering taking over the running of women's shelters, subjecting victims of domestic abuse to medical examinations and near-incarceration under a proposal rights groups say is a concession to the Taliban.