Three weeks after Pakistan's worst natural disaster began, many people are living in camps all around the country. Shmyalla Jawad, who is the gender advisor for the Plan International organisation in Pakistan, visited some of these camps in the Layyah district in Southern Punjab. She found out that apart from the dire conditions in the camp, women and girls are also facing a cultural challenge.

In few countries do women face as many challenges as they do in Afghanistan—a country which not only holds the record for the worst place to be a mother, according to Save the Children's “State of the World's Mothers Report 2010,” but is also home to the fundamentalist Taliban, one of the world's most repressive anti-women's rights regimes.

AUSTRALIA based Fijian hip-hop artist Thelma Thomas aka MC Trey jets into the country to hold a series of workshops with local young women.

The Majlis is mulling over a major plan to provide greater security for women, MP Zohreh Elahian announced recently.

Some are ambushed as they return from washing themselves or in their flimsy tents in the middle of the night, others are confronted by two or three attackers at a time.

Local and international aid groups have reported a sharp increase in rape and sexual assault against Haitian women still living in makeshift camps sprawled across the capital following the earthquake in January.

Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said Monday.

Will F. Cragin of the International Medical Corps said aid and U.N. workers knew rebels had occupied Luvungi town and surrounding villages in eastern Congo the day after the attack began on July 30.

South Sudan is preparing to repatriate some 1.5 million southerners from the north and Egypt, ahead of a referendum due next January on whether the south should secede.

The proposals suggest returnees will travel on trains and buses, as well as boats down the River Nile.

Some two million people have already returned to the south since the end of a two-decade conflict in 2005.

Happy Kibira Foundation's (HFK) efforts to train parents in income generating activities are paying off following the Uganda Women Entrepreneurs' Association Limited (UWEAL)'s commitment to provide market for the parents' products.

More than one thousand women and 15 Arab and Jewish human rights groups will demonstrate on Monday against the Israeli authorities continued demolition of houses and villages in the Negev.

The demonstration organized by the Arab follow up committee in 1948 occupied land in cooperation with numerous women groups is to start in front of the Israeli interior ministry in Jerusalem.

This June, America's campaign in Afghanistan became the longest war in U.S. History. This summer's total spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan hit the $1 trillion mark. American financial and human resources have been exhausted and emerging consensus from General Petraeus on down holds that there is no military solution in Afghanistan.