The women of Filipino Ladies Association of Guam donned brightly colored mestizas and floral wreaths to commemorate a golden benchmark -- five decades of service to the community.

On Jan. 8, the organization held it's 50th Induction and Christmas Ball at the Guam Marriot Resort & Spa, where new officers and directors pledged allegiance to FLAG.

From promoting sustainable development and mitigating climate change to empowering women to keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today laid out the United Nations agenda for the coming year.

“Success in rising to the challenge does not belong to any one of us,” he told the 192-member General Assembly, listing eight priorities for 2011.

A Liberian lady, fully armed with Masters and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees, has arrived in the country from the United States of America (USA) to contest the Liberian presidency.

Saudi female activists who had been expected to brave a driving ban have postponed a planned day of action for Sunday following the death of Crown Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz, a member of the group said.

They sit patiently in the lobby of the directorate of women's rights at the women's ministry, their sad, bruised faces testimony to the years of ill-treatment and beatings they have been forced to endure.

The Palestinian Cabinet endorsed a nine-year national strategic plan to combat violence again women in the occupied Palestinian territory, the first of its kind in the Arab region.

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the combined fourth and fifth periodic report of Israel on how that country implements the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) announced today that its initiative on gender and peacebuilding is now become a full programmatic center, naming Kathleen Kuehnast as director. Kuehnast, a socio-cultural anthropologist, joined USIP in 2008 following a 15-year career in international development and post-conflict.

Ahead of municipal elections in the spring, a group of activists in Saudi Arabia have launched a campaign to allow women to run, as well as vote.

The campaign, dubbed My Country, kicked off Sunday with letters sent to various government officials and posts on social networking Web sites.

Primarily, as a result of negligible conviction rate, the graph of crime against women in Kashmir has touched an all time high in last four years.

Data available with the Kashmir Times reveals the pathetic position of women victims who have faced the worst not only at the hands of the criminals but the administration as well.