Although Colombia seems to have a number of the right policies for improving gender equality, structural challenges and slow uptake risk making equality a distant goal.

Women make enormous contributions to their families and their communities, and there is compelling evidence that women jumpstart and then drive economic growth around the world,” said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

There is a reason that we rarely see photo essays of serious social problems from Norway.

There are relatively few social problems.

Norway has a well-deserved reputation as one of the wealthiest, safest, best-educated and most democratic countries in the world.

But this is precisely why Walter Astrada chose Norway as the place to complete his magnum opus on violence against women.

Women are being murdered in Honduras -- already deemed the world's deadliest country by the United Nations -- at a skyrocketing rate, according to figures released Sunday.

More than 3,000 women were killed in the last decade -- but more than 40 per cent of those murders happened in just the last two years, the national commission for human rights (CONADEH) said.

It's a crime that's rising in Seattle and across the country, and it is even more profound in places like El Salvador.

On Thursday, a group of women's-rights advocates from Central America met with Lt. Deborah King in the tightly packed offices of the Seattle Police Department's Domestic Violence and Elder Crimes Unit to learn about programs that deal with violence against women.

In 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, a multi-year effort to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls around the world.

Conversations have taken a livelier turn at dinner tables across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), according to one young Bosnian woman.

Better integrating women into global efforts to end conflict and promote peace is a critical objective of U.S. diplomacy, according to a new State Department report.

Eqlima is a young girl from Afghanistan. She lived with an abusive father and stepmother who often beat her. They even set her hair on fire. She escaped to a U.S. State Department-supported women's shelter. The staff helped move her away from her father and stepmother, and now is helping her move in with her older brother.

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched its plan for implementing the U.S National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), directing implementation of the United States' first-ever National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security.