The Taliban have renewed attacks on girls' schools in northwest Pakistan, stoking fears of a fresh terror campaign against women.

Are sex strikes slowly but surely becoming a new form of political strategy? This is the question which comes to mind on reading about the declaration of a group of Nigerian women based abroad.

Ashgabat, 13 September 2010 – More than 160 officials from Turkmen governmental institutions and public associations at the local level enhanced their knowledge about the UN human rights system in a series of workshops in all five regions of Turkmenistan from 17 to 28 August 2010.

During the upcoming UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon will announce a new plan for improving the health of women and children in developing countries, he told reporters Monday.

Ban will launch a new Global Strategy for Women's and Children' s Health on Sept. 22 at a special event featuring leaders from both private and public sectors.

APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) The Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe said Monday that fewer females than males are participating in an ongoing exercise to gather public views on the proposed Constitution and warned that women risked having their concerns left out of the new charter.

According to the coalition, women comprise only 38 percent of overall attendances during the constitutional outreach programme that started in June.

When Shahrzad Kariman finally saw her imprisoned daughter Shiva Nazar Ahari earlier this month, it was for a brief moment outside the Tehran courtroom where the 26-year-old human rights campaigner had been brought. "We could see her for a few minutes," Kariman told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran last week. "Just enough to hug her.

We take this opportunity on this day, Sept. 7, 2010, marked by the meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the recent case of mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to denounce this war of low intensity imposed on the Congolese population in the east of their country.

RENK - South Sudan Women Empowerment Network, a body that works to enlighten women on political, economic, social, and traditional matters, has on Friday concluded three days workshop in the southern state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal.

Juba, Sudan – Developing the ability of women legislators to govern more effectively, especially with regards to addressing gender equality issues was the focus of a conference by the Women's Democracy Network (WDN) and IRI in partnership with the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

On Wednesday 8th September, Mu Sochua's team participated in an all-day “Workshop on Achieving MDG3 [in Cambodia] by 2015″, organized by the Technical Coordination Secretariat, in collaboration with the Ministry of Woman's Affairs and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (co-funded by UNDP/Legislative Assistant Project, UNIFEM, UNMC and Action Aid).