During the inaugural meeting of U.N. Women's executive board this week, Executive Director Michelle Bachelet laid out a 100-day action plan for the newly-launched agency, Inter Press Service reports.

The African women's movement, Monday, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, submitted to the 16th African Union (AU) summit, a proposal related to maintaining an agenda with subject about women's rights issues.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) will host a United Nations expert this week who is studying why Native women face the highest rates of sexual and physical assault of any group in the United States.

Women constitute the majority of the population in Zimbabwe and often make up the bulk of participants at any rally or big political event, but a new report shows very few are registering as voters.

The Democratic Republic of Congo needs to control sexual violence despite the arrest of a rebel leader tied to mass rapes, the British government said.

French authorities acting on an arrest warrant issued in September by the International Criminal Court transferred alleged Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana to the ICC detention center in The Hague.

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday called for greater protection for the African women, saying that culture and tradition should not justify the injustices made to them. Addressing heads of state and government attending the 16th Summit of the AU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ban deplored the violence against African women both in times of peace and armed conflicts.

United Nations officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today reported another 53 alleged cases of rape in the conflict-rife eastern part of the country, bringing to 120 those reported since the beginning of the year and attributed to all sides, including the national army.

Indian peacekeepers rescued seven women held by a militia group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said Friday as it expressed concern over a new wave of rape attacks in the now notorious region.

Scores of new rapes have been reported in Nord and Sud Kivu provinces by militia groups and the DR Congo army, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters.

Armed men raped 60 people in eastern Congo in the last 10 days, the latest in a spate of mass sexual attacks in the region, the United Nations said Friday. Charline Burton, a United Nations spokeswoman, said it was not clear who carried out the attacks in the Fizi area of South Kivu Province from Jan. 19 to Jan. 21.

The international emergency medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided specialised care to 53 women, men and children who were raped in a series of incidents that occurred between 19th January and 21st January in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).