A new study revealed that sex corruption is a growing trend in the job market here. Job seekers report losing potential employment opportunities because of a refusal to have sexual relations with employers. A new media campaign aims to draw attention to the issue.

Four recent cases of women slain allegedly at the hand of either a husband or father have prompted women and human rights groups to demand tougher Palestinian laws against domestic violence.

Several female activists marched through the streets of Bethlehem on Thursday demanding justice for women in a patriarchal and traditional society. They also demanded severe punishment for men who kill or batter a female family member.

“The daily toil and toll of keeping and making peace can challenge even the most persevering among us,” Secretary Teresita “Ging” Quintos Deles, of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (Opapp), has said.

Suleman Khan demanded justice from the tribal elders. His wife had slept with another man, he said, and he wanted their permission to seek revenge. The elders deliberated for an hour, and then announced their verdict: Punish the man and his family any way you see fit.

Awareness of the National Action Plan initiative – on women, peace and security – has been woefully inadequate in the Far Western region.

For the first time in the three-month long uprising in eastern Congo, more civilians are being injured than soldiers—most of whom are reported to be women and children.

While those responsible for the current rebellion in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are largely members of the M23 mutiny, the face of the rebellion is undeniably innocent—for it is now the faces of women and children.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met schoolgirls and Africa's second woman president during an unprecedented visit to Malawi Sunday before jetting to South Africa to visit Nelson Mandela.

On the fifth leg of a tour that has already taken her to troubled South Sudan and focused on the continent's security woes, Clinton chose to emphasise women's rights and education.

When the multi-country research programme that I direct, Pathways of Women's Empowerment, began its search for inspiring examples of empowerment, in 2006, few might have imagined it would take us to a collective of sex workers in a town in the heart of Maharashtra in India.

Every glance at a mirror transports Consuelo Cordoba to the moment when her boyfriend doused her with a skin-searing acid that obliterated her face, leaving her with gruesome wounds that will never heal.

Sookaina Boudraa had been waiting for three hours at the Alwaha health clinic in Sidi Moumen, an area in northeastern Casablanca known for its slums.