A Nobel-prize nominated Congolese gynecologist said on Tuesday he is too scared to return to his native Congo after an attempt on his life last month by armed men in one of the most violent parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"I can't guarantee my own security. As soon as I can guarantee I'll be protected, I'll be back," Denis Mukwege told reporters during a visit to the European Commission in Brussels.

My worry, as the high-level panel on post-2015 development goals meets this week, is that my voice – and those of many others working at the sharp end of development – won't ultimately have much influence.

Egyptian bullies who sexually harass women in the streets, often taking advantage of mob situations and the anonymity these provide, are getting a taste of their own medicine – and they don't like it.

Forty-four Syrian women from different civil society organizations and young independent activists convened in Cairo on 30 October for three days to launch the Syrian Women's Forum for Peace.

According to information from the women's ward of Evin prison, Karami, detained political prisoners on hunger strike from Tuesday to take over.

The number of strikers had ten people.

Inter Press Service News Agency -- "Adultery Laws Unfairly Target Women, U.N. Says" Yasmeen Hassan comments on the state of adultery laws across the globe and their negative impact on women.

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In the conflict ridden Somali capital Mogadishu, Somali women have been given a rare opportunity to join the Somali Police Force, a step not familiar in the past two decades.

The General Kahiye Police Academy is where the newly recruited female cadets were undergoing intensive training at the hands of their mentors. The female officers have been deployed at each and every police station and operate alongside their male counterparts.

IT is both ironic and tragic that policy debates on the need to reform the security sector in post-conflict societies such as Zimbabwe do not address gender-based injustices, especially the trials and tribulations of women in conflict situations, yet at the turn of the 21st Century, a lady parliamentarian invigorated this critical debate.

By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Monrovia. Of the world's 1.3 billion poor people, nearly 70 per cent are women. According to reports by UN Women, women perform 66 per cent of the world's work and produce 50 per cent of the world's food, yet earn only 10 per cent of the world's income and own only one per cent of land.

Brian Ngugi interviews Winnie Lichuma, chairwoman of the National Gender and Equality Commission.

As Kenya gets ready for voter registration this month, ahead of the country's Mar. 4, 2013 polls, women's rights organisations are hoping that the provisions for gender equality in the new constitution will mean significantly increased representation in the government.