This week marks the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

One of the unsung heroes of the suffrage movement was Jane Addams.

Throughout her life, Addams struggled not only for women's rights, but also for labor and civil rights; free speech and world peace.

The women come from all over Israel every month to pray at the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites.

As their voices rise and fall in prayer, onlookers gawk and occasionally harass the praying women. Israeli police have arrested several women on charges of disturbing the peace; Orthodox men and women have spit at, cursed and attacked others.

With this fall's midterm elections, the number of women serving in Congress could drop for the first time in a generation — a twist on a political season many had dubbed "the year of the woman."

There is nothing more wholesome than the participation of women in the political process. When women gain in numbers in elected representation, when more women engage in the political process, women gain in influence--and that means greater advancement for America's women and families.

As the debate rages over the withdrawal of British and US troops in Afghanistan, there are those who argue that the appalling treatment of women under the Taliban is a peripheral issue. They claim that the fate of Afghan women such as 18-year-old Aisha, whose nose and ears were sliced off as retribution for running away from her husband's home, is horrific, but irrelevant. They are wrong.

A two-day consultative workshop on gender issues organized by UNAMID, concluded yesterday in Nyala, South Darfur.

The occasion was used to discuss the status of the implementation of UNSCR 1325, a landmark resolution by the UN Security Council which ensures that the promotion of women's empowerment and gender equality form a central part of efforts to implement peacekeeping mandates.

For tens of thousands of people who live in daily fear of sexual violence, the UN Security Council's emergency session to consider ways of preventing mass rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must look like the diplomatic equivalent of offering band aids to a bleeding horse.

A grand march to protest against violence committed on women will be organized this coming October in Bukavu, the main town of South-Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

Margot Wallstrom, U.N. special representative on sexual violence in conflict, deployed a senior staff member on Aug. 25 to help find out what happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo in July, when more than 179 women were reportedly attacked and gang raped.

The attacks took place in the U.N. peacekeeper-occupied North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Disabled people – especially women – are often the last to be considered in the aftermath of wars and natural disasters. In the aftermath of war, civil unrest and disaster, there are always untold stories, but only rarely do you hear of the isolation, neglect and abuse of women and girls with disabilities.