The United Nations is seeking to empower women candidates ahead of Tanzania's general elections in October, including by improving their skills in public speaking, media engagement, campaign planning, presentations, community mobilization, advocacy and lobbying.

The global rights body, Human Rights Watch (HRW) together with local rights activists have expressed grave concern over government's handling of the ongoing discrimination and gender based-violence against women with disabilities in Northern Uganda.

Africa's political independence was accompanied by a common clarion call to eradicate poverty, illiteracy and disease. Fifty years after the end of colonial, the question is: To what extent has the promise of that call has been realized for African women? There is no doubt that African women's “long walk to freedom” has yielded some results, however painfully and slowly.

If Nepal Police data is anything to go by, a rape is committed every 24 hours in the country. Blame it on the male dominated social structure and the culture of impunity , but rape statistics reveal an alarming trend.

NAIROBI, 7 September 2010 (IRIN) - Authorities in Galkayo, in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, are offering internally displaced persons (IDPs) skills training in a bid to integrate them into the community, officials said.

The move comes nearly a year after many IDPs and their businesses were targeted by mobs for suspected involvement in explosions in the town.

Afabet, 6 September 2010 - The head of the NUEW branch in Afabet sub-zone, Ms. Saediya Mohammed Adem, said that women are becoming not only beneficiaries of the newly available social services but are also being competitive in various aspects thanks to the vigorous efforts made to promote the all-round participation of Eritrean women.

Being mothers, sisters, daughters or even wives Somali women have been violated in many ways, their sons, husbands, brothers, fathers and uncles has been killed, some of them has been rapped, others faced different violence.

Ninety Somali youth and women successfully concluded six three-day workshops held August 3-9 to increase their understanding of conflict in Somalia and strengthen their skills to help avert, manage and mitigate conflicts, particularly clan-related conflict, in their communities.

Wearing matching green headscarves coupled with dark jeans and tuniques, Afghan NGO leader Shakila and her daughter Zhulina, eyed the 25 shoeless International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) officers sitting on floor cushions in the ISAF Joint Command (IJC) shura room nervously, before introducing themselves.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh's High Court ordered the government to ensure women will not be forced to wear burqas at educational institutions after one college reportedly barred females without the veil from entering.

The court issued a similar order in April, but Sunday's ruling took the law a step further by stating any kind of religious attire could not be imposed, including Islamic skull caps worn by males.