The whole world was shocked after a video was leaked on you tube last week showing a Sudanese woman being lashed at Al Hijera police station in Omdurman, Khartoum. The woman was lashed all over her body, back, head and face while she was screaming and begging them to stop.

The three Somali women sat huddled together in a corner of an empty, dusty room in a camp for displaced people in northern Somalia, their faces etched with grief and resignation.

They were all rape victims. Two of them had been gang-raped, by up to six men.

With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, we know what is needed to unleash the potential of women and children around the globe and particularly those in Africa.

But just knowing is not enough - we need to take action and take it now.

Rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment "occur nearly twice as often within military ranks as they do within civilian life" and are the leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder in women veterans, but the Pentagon refuses to release information on it, or on its feeble efforts to help women who suffer from it, the Service Women's Action Network says in a federal FOIA complaint.

OVER 80% of women in northern Uganda are denied the right to own property.The remark was made by Gulu chief magistrate Joseph Omodonyanga.

While officiating at celebrations to mark International Human Rights Day, last Friday at Pece Stadium in Gulu, Omodonyanga said women's rights to inherit property were still gravely abused.

Khartoum, Sudan -- A YouTube video of Sudanese police officers laughing as they publicly flogged a pleading, fleeing woman has sparked outrage, prompting dozens of demonstrators to protest Tuesday outside the Justice Ministry in downtown Khartoum, authorities said.

Just a few weeks ago, as millions of families gathered in the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving, a lesser-known event went by unnoticed. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women kicked off 16 Days of Activism, an international campaign to end gender-based violence.

Congolese leaders should be prepared for attacks by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army during the upcoming holiday season, the United Nations warned.

The United Nations estimates that the LRA may have killed more than 1,800 people and abducted another 2,400 more since 2007. Many of the women targeted by the rebel group were raped or forced into sexual slavery.

Women from the Great Lakes region on Wednesday held a peaceful walk in the Democratic Republic of Congo condemning the increase in mass rapes in the country.

The women drawn from Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and Sierra Leone joined their female counterparts in Congo to urge the government to criminalise the culture of impunity and end the sexual violence.

The tragedy in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues, while the international community assists helplessly, indifferently, passively, or even knowingly,” said the newsletter edited by the “Peace Network for the Congo”, promoted by missionaries.