A year after what little they had was shattered and torn, the women of Haiti are struggling against a new crisis — rapes in the camps.

Last January's earthquake not only left behind death and debris fields, it also, say experts, created a rich hunting ground for sexual predators.

FIVE years go by so fast. In 2006, our leaders made many promises as they convinced us to give them our vote; some were fulfilled while others were not. It is now payback time and power is back in the hands of the ordinary woman and man.

For the last five years, power has been in the hands of our leaders, now it is time for us to reclaim it.

Women and girls living in Haiti's makeshift camps face an increasing risk of rape and sexual violence, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.

There has been a lot of public outcry over corruption in Uganda and Africa as a continent. Corruption is a big issue because it has caused a huge loss to Ugandans and hindered the development of the country.

There are ghosts in every sector of the economy — health centres, pensioners, the Universal Primary Education programme and the army.

Zimbabwe Women in Trade and Development, a non-profit making Trust (ZWITAD), has received $50 000 from FBC Bank Limited to empower women.

“On the proposition to give women a chance, we want to empower women. Only a woman will go down to uplift other women and only women are faithful to their families,” said ZWITAD national advisor Gertrude Chikwava.

In one of the worst areas of maternal care in the world, a health advocacy is teaching Indian women the three big factors in maternal deaths and how to assert political and community pressure to avoid them.

Payments demanded by doctors for conducting deliveries of babies after 11 at night at a district public health center in Udaipur, a city in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, came down dramatically around August 2009.

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has pledged anew to help the new administration conduct programs that uplift the rights of women and children in Mindanao.

A memorandum of agreement was recently signed by Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Secretary Luwalhati Antonino and UNICEF Country representative Vanessa Tobin, witnessed no less than President Benigno Aquino III himself.

Reporters Without Borders is extremely shocked by the long jail sentences that a prosecutor requested yesterday for two newspaper journalists who, after six months in pre-trial detention, are being tried before a Kigali high court on a range of charges including genocide denial and inciting public disorder.

The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has released tentative figures of registered voters who will cast their votes in forthcoming local leaders' elections, which indicate that, 5,417,886 people have so far been registered.

Yesterday morning, while John Boehner was leading the House of Representatives in what David Corn called the "weaponizing" of the Constitution, I stood in front of the Capitol with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NJ), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and other leaders of women's rights organizations to talk about what's missing from that document.