Guatemalan human rights defender Norma Cruz – leader of the women's rights organization ‘Survivors' Foundation' (Fundación Sobrevivientes) – has received repeated death threats because of her work supporting victims of violence against women and calling for those responsible to be prosecuted.

Generally speaking, women have not exactly been conspicuous among the leaders of the ethnic minorities that are at odds with the Burmese central government. But that may be changing.

When her father told her at the age of 10 that she should cover her hair with a veil, Hanan al Shaykh was quick to shoot him down with child-like curiosity and a rebellious streak, asking him why would God give her hair in the first place if they were meant to be covered.

'Do you want coffee? Baileys? Coffee and Baileys?' Kathryn Bolkovac pours a dash of liqueur into a black onyx mug. 'That's what I'm having.'

“I have heard and read much about Khojaly tragedy. I offer my condolences to the Azerbaijani people over this tragedy. All the tragedies committed in the Caucasus are common tragedy of the region. Women suffered much in these tragedies,” Deputy-Chairperson of Georgian Parliament Rusudan Kervalishvili said, APA's Georgia bureau reports.

Scholar Yasmin Saikia talks about the untold stories from the 1971 Bangladesh war that led her to write Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh.