Nafis Sadik, a special advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and professor Shirley Randell, one of Australia's 100 Inaugural Women of Influence in 2012, were among the participants of an international summit in İstanbul, which kicked off on Saturday with a program dedicated to discussions on a variety of topics, including women's empowerment and food security as part of the United Nations Development Agenda from the perspective of

Kurdish women are getting involved in the peace process to promote a free, equal and democratic society.

Northeast India comprises the contiguous Eight States—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. The region has been facing the onslaught of multiple armed conflicts for many decades. The issues aggravated after the introduction of the Armed Forces Special Power Act. More than 50,000 lives have been lost in the violence.

Zahra said a neighbor raped her in her home on Friday. It was the most humiliating event in her unremittingly painful life, and the next day she begged her husband, Najibullah, to move their family so the man could not attack her again. He refused.

On Sunday afternoon, she poured kerosene over Najibullah and lit him on fire.

The gruesome rape and hanging of two teenage girls in the populous Uttar Pradesh state again proves how women have become the biggest victims of India's sanitation crisis.

The two girls were going to the fields to defecate when they went missing on Tuesday night.

Nearly half-a-billion Indians - or 48% of the population - lack access to basic sanitation and defecate in the open.

Four musical sisters are launching a campaign to raise awareness about violence against women. It's called “That Could Be Me” and asks Winnipeggers to imagine what it's like to live in fear.

“You take yourself into the position that those people are going through, and you feel their pain and the situation they're going through. So that is why we're doing this,” says Sylvie Bahati.

The stories of gang-rape, forced marriage and fathers being forced to rape their own daughters at gunpoint keep her awake at night. Saran Keïta Diakité has listened to countless women recount the atrocities that the people of her war-torn country (Mali) have endured at the hands of armed groups since a military coup d'état in March 2012.

An open discussion and workshop titled ‘Women for Peace: the way forward' took place at Home for Cooperation yesterday.

Counterpart International, a global leader in the development of the social sector, announced the official launch of its two-year Women's Peace Building Initiative (WPBI) under a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The launch is taking place in Buka, Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARB) at the Kuri Village Resort on May 20, 2014.

A series of gold-framed pictures cover the wall from left to right inside the working space of Senegalese human rights activist Bineta Diop. Nelson Mandela, Paul Kagame, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Yasser Arafat -- they're all here. This is Diop's wall of memories, reminders of meetings and accomplishments over the years.