A single mother of three, survivor of prison torture and exile. A pediatrician, linguist and practised buster of gender barriers as the first female president of Chile. This is the resume that makes Michelle Bachelet an excellent choice to lead the newly created UN agency to promote gender equality around the globe, to be called UN Women.

Gender-based violence, especially targeting women, significantly declined in the run up to the referendum compared to 2007 General Election period, a new study has revealed.

This is a speech delivered by President Mugabe at a high-level plenary meeting on Millennium Development Goals in New York yesterday.

At a noon press conference, live streamed from the United Nations (UN), the new Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, former Chilean President Michele Bachelet, faced a room full of international reporters.

MOROTO — Two surveys of WFP beneficiaries paint a shocking picture of the hardship and sexual violence faced by Ugandan women collecting firewood.

Barentu — A meeting held in Barentu town highlighted the need for undertaking vigorous public awareness raising campaigns so that efforts to dramatically reduce maternal mortality rate during pregnancy and delivery in Gash-Barka region may bear successful outcome.

Right now, the largest gathering of world leaders in at least a decade is assembling at the United Nations in New York to assess what progress has been made in reducing poverty, improving health and ensuring access to education in developing countries. One issue on the agenda that is especially dear to me is how to combat pregnancy-related deaths and injuries and improve women's health in developing countries.

The Iraq War officially is over, and the war in Afghanistan may be coming to a close, but a dozen Athens women still gather weekly in downtown Athens asking to give peace a chance.

The Women in Black's weekly anti-war vigil Tuesday afternoon coincided with the International Day of Peace this year, drawing a larger crowd than usual to the University of Georgia Arch.

The Council adopted a decision extending until 30 September 2012 the EU mission to provide advice and assistance for security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (12855/10).

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will announce on Wednesday a $40 billion launch to a plan to save the lives of 16 million women and children over the next five years, U.N. officials said.

The drive aims to make headway on the slowest-moving sectors of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the world body 10 years ago -- maternal and child health.