The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, has provided delivery kits to mothers and children at the James Davids Hospital in Paynesville and the Phebe Hospital in Gbarnga, Bong County.

The Mama and baby kits include cloth, bucket, food and other essential materials for women and children.

Three members of the team negotiating for South Sudanese rebels in Ethiopia are women. They have been playing a role in what is usually a male arena.

The ongoing high-level peace talks between South Sudan's government and opposition include three women on the opposition side who are members of the national parliament in Juba.

WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--January 16, 2014. U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today introduced the Women, Peace and Security Act of 2014.

Living in the lush mountainous region in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Wivine Mwbawa would spend hours each day walking through the forest to fetch water for her family.

It was on a routine daily run a year-and-a-half-ago when she was ambushed and raped by three soldiers. She returned home to find that rebels had slaughtered her mother, father and two brothers.

If regular armies are generally a man's world, guerrillas and insurgent forces are just the contrary. There women have always had a central role.

Iraq is in the middle of a crisis again. In the past year alone, the UN estimates that 8,868 people, including 7,818 civilians, have been killed in violent attacks across the country. Which makes it important to hear what the Iraqi activist and author Haifa Zangana has to say.

In its annual report, the Human Rights Watch organization released on Tuesday blasts that Women and girls in Somalia face alarming levels of sexual violence throughout the country.

Zimbabwe has made significant strides in gender equality but still lags behind on key indicators, according to the latest SADC Gender Protocol Barometer for the country.On a variety of indicators, Zimbabwe scored a 58 percent gender equity rate, below the regional average of 66 percent.

Violent crime against women in Afghanistan hit record levels and became increasingly brutal in 2013, the head of the country's human rights commission said this weekend — a sign that hard won rights are being rolled back as foreign troops prepare to withdraw.

Morocco aims to toss part of its penal code allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, lawmakers told Al Jazeera Wednesday.

Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code is a controversial holdover from the North African kingdom's colonial era that has in recent years resulted in some rape victims committing suicide.