Along the border of Israel and Lebanon, female peacekeepers are playing a vital role in the United Nations unit that patrols the area.

Captain Annie - French soldiers don't use their last names - is examining Gomo, a working security dog from France who lives at a base of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

Israel has detained more than 15,000 Palestinian women since 1967, the Palestinian Minister of Women's Affairs said on Thursday, according to the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) report received by Mi'raj News Agency (MEMO) Saturday.

“I have started carrying pepper spray to protect myself. My parents have become more protective, they want to know where I'm going, when I'll be back and with whom I'm hanging out,” says Srishti, a 20-year-old Delhi student who feels unsafe when she steps out of her house.

Front Line Defenders is gravely concerned by reports of further threats issued against women human rights defenders working in the city of Barrancabermeja.

In the past five months nine civilians were killed and fourteen injured in Kachin State as a result of Burmese military artillery fire, a Kachin human rights group alleges. It said army units also torched hundreds of homes and committed acts of sexual violence against local women and girls.

Ma-Ubin residents said riot police incited the violence that led to rioting in the Irrawaddy Delta township on Tuesday night, while a government media outlet blamed protestors for attacking police officers.

Dozens of people were injured and one police officer was killed after villagers and police clashed as locals demonstrated against the confiscation of more than 1,000 acres of land by the former military junta.

In the lead up to Women's Day, on March 8, Liberia has become the latest nation to sign a pledge to end violence against women and girls. In Dakar, the human-rights group U.N. Women says nearly 100 countries have no specific legal provisions against domestic violence.

A 45-year-old housewife from Monrovia, Lucy Morris, says violence against women is a serious problem in Liberia.

People who were sexually abused in Kenya's 2007 post-election violence are still seeking justice as the next vote nears.

Police used batons to break up angry crowds outside a hospital where the girl had been taken for treatment.

Teachers and security guards at the government school are being questioned over the alleged assault, police said.

The gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December sparked protests across India.