The Democratic Republic of Congo's justice minister pledged Monday to "spare no effort" in ending impunity for sexual violence, adding that results of probes into recent mass rapes would be published in coming days.

As more women join the military, they need services that range from medical and psychological treatment to homeless prevention and housing.

Female veterans have unique issues that are gender-related, military and Veterans Affairs officials say.

To that end, Virtua Health has developed a proposal to promote awareness of expanded services for female vets available from both Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.

The time has come for women leaders to influence the narrative on climate change and how we address its impacts. The devastating floods in Pakistan illustrate how natural and man-made disasters can in a matter of days wipe out years of development progress. The floods in Pakistan have affected 20 million people -- equal to the population of New York state -- or nearly two-thirds of Canada.

Only fifteen of nearly four hundred persons, most of them women, were allowed to witness before Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) in Mullaiththeevu Government Secretariat Monday while the others were driven away, sources in Mullaiththeevu said.

Rose Mapendo felt ready to die after being kept at a death camp for eight months in the Democratic Republic of Congo, her native country.

The UN Security Council strongly criticized the Democratic Republic of Congo government Friday for mass rapes in the country and demanded tougher action to catch those responsible.

Hundreds of women and children were raped by militia groups in eastern DR Congo in late July and early August, in acts that drew widespread international condemnation. UN peacekeepers were also criticized for their slow response to the sex assaults.

Afghanistan's security forces have been bolstered by thousands of women officers as they go on high alert ahead of nationwide parliamentary elections on September 18, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports.

In spite of strides made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), large numbers of women and girls, especially those in rural areas, have been left behind and continue to live in exclusion and poverty, according to United Nations data unveiled today.

The Slow Death of Domestic Violence

The government of Timor-Leste is struggling to implement a recently adopted law criminalizing domestic violence, amid scepticism that it is too much, too soon.

“We are a teenager of a country,” Maria Filomena Babo Martins, chief of training and education at the Secretariat of State for the Promotion of Equality (SEPI), which is coordinating the law's implementation, told IRIN.

The true toll of the Iraq war is one that won't be tallied for years. The effects of missing fathers and mothers, here and there, the cost of a society shattered into fragments only clumsily coming together, like badly healed bones.

Leila Fadhil of the Washington Post, one of the best people covering Iraq at the moment, has the story today of one of those edges. The fate of the children of Al Qaeda.