Created by the FreeMiddleEast.com organization, the film compared the rights of women in Iran with those in South Africa in the days of Apartheid.

“This oppression of Iranian women is reminiscent of black apartheid in South Africa,” FreeMiddleEast says. “Let's stop Iran's Gender Apartheid together."

GENEVA, March 7 (UNHCR) – In June last year, inter-ethnic clashes erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan. The days of violence, which followed the flight into exile seven weeks earlier of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, forced almost 400,000 people to flee their homes, with many finding temporary sanctuary in neighbouring Uzbekistan.

David Cortright is director of Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. In October, he presented to the United Nations a report titled Afghan Women Speak: Enhancing Security and Human Rights in Afghanistan. It included recommendations for U.S. and NATO policymakers.

The President has taken part in the first congress of Kazakhstan's women, which was held in the city of Astana. The head of state noted that women have always been his most faithful teammates and the country's leader also hopes it will remain so during the new stage of the Republic's development.

Few people are aware that a group of women – calling themselves the Peace Women, dressed in colourful lappas (Liberian cloth), bright white t-shirts and white headscarves, were instrumental in bringing peace to Liberia.

100 women in Suva planted 100 seedlings to celebrate the 100th year of the International Women's Day organized by the Fiji Women's Rights Movement Green girls.

FWRM's Executive Director Virisila Buadromo said that with the support of the British High Commission, they have worked with a group of young girls to create more awareness on the linkages between gender and the environment.

Thousands of Rwandan and Congolese women met in the middle of the Ruzizi Bridge that joins their countries. Honorata Barinjibanwa was one of them. She was tied to a tree and gang-raped for five months by one of the Congo's roving militias. Rope marks still ringed her delicate neck when a New York Times reporter visited her in hospital two months later. A Rwandan woman named Fatuma was there too.

On Thursday 3 March 2011, the YWCAs of Palestine, Sudan and Sri Lanka presented a parallel event at the fifty-fifth session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to provide their perspectives on living in a conflict country. The presentation focused around women, education and peace building, and the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

PBS NewsHour marks International Women's Health Day (March 8) with a two-part series from Guatemala focusing on two major struggles women face in that country. PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez examines a culture of violence against women now fueled by drug trafficking and the struggles to teach women about birth control.

The reports air Monday, March 7 and Tuesday, March 8, 2010 (check local listings).

Throughout the extraordinary events of the last few months, across the Middle East and North Africa, long-silenced voices demanding change are being heard worldwide -- and stalwart among them are the voices of women.