Equal gender rights have always been a guaranteed indicator for the social development of a country. The nine million women (out of 15 million) has been enabled by the government of Kazakhstan to patronage them. Firstly the life expectancy of a Kazakh woman is 71 years, ten years more than that of a man. Secondly being larger in number, she is the real responsibility of her family.

Every year an estimated 10,000 Nepalese girls between the ages of nine and 16 are trafficked across India's open border and sold into prostitution. Interpol, an international criminal police organization, cites trafficking as a multi-billion dollar industry that continues to grow exponentially, with more than 200,000 Nepalese girls now working in the brothels of India.

While recent events in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sparked international debate, at the UN, official declarations have lacked transparency.

In a press videoconference, UN Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of Congo Roger Meece spoke on behalf of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).

Human Rights Are Women's Rights using political strategies; women are gaining power around the world by Peggy Curlin. Peggy Curlin is President of the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), a woman-focused nonprofit international organization founded in 1975. Its mission is to empower women at all levels of society to be full partners in development.

A committee of mothers of Palestinian prisoners met Friday outside the headquarters of the Red Cross in Gaza City, protesting the continued incarceration of their sons and daughters.

CAPE Town -- Since arriving in Cape Town five years ago, Erina Manyene (not her real name) has survived by doing laundry and cleaning other people's homes in the leafy Southern Suburbs.

Top United Nations officials called today for more funding and advocacy to improve literacy rates among the world's women, who comprise two out of every three adults who cannot read or write.
In a message marking International Literacy Day, which is observed today, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the transformative effect on both a family and the wider community when a woman is literate.

Women are “indispensable partners” in all aspects of making and consolidating peace, ranging from reconciliation to economic recovery to social cohesion, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today.

In the presence of H.R.H Princess Astrid of Belgium, Catherine Ashton, and Steven Vanackere, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, co-hosted a high-level conference at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels today to mark the tenth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women's Participation in Peace and Security and called for its full and speedy implementation.