(Moscow) - Russia should put an end to local rules forcing women in Chechnya to observe an Islamic dress code, Human Rights Watch said today.

Since the start of Ramadan in mid-August, Human Rights Watch has received numerous reports from Chechnya about women being harassed in the streets of Grozny, the republic's capital, for not covering their hair and/or wearing clothes deemed too revealing.

The Minister of Justice, Cllr. Christiana P. Tah, has called on 'widows' of deceased soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) who are involved in blocking streets in Monrovia and other illegal actions to desist from their action.

Late last year, I hosted a conference in Sarajevo that brought together female parliamentarians from across the region. It was the second time the OSCE had supported this gathering, and over a two-day period participants discussed how to expand and improve the participation of women in politics.

A section of Women in Sierra Leone have decided to hold their President right in the spotlight by taking advantage of his Public Apology to Women, whether the President was sincere or not, to move to actualize worthy dreams for a 30% Quota of Women in the decision making processes of Governance.

A U.N. human rights investigation mission will be launched in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Wednesday, U.N. officials announced Tuesday, after gruesome reports surfaced in the media of the systematic gang rape of nearly 200 women in a 21km stretch of 15 villages.

The Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development ministry has raised fears that women, who constitute the highest number of participants in the constitution-making process, are being intimidated into silence at outreach meetings.

The inclusive Government is committed to achieving gender equality in line with the Sadc Protocol on Gender and Development, as it is a key ingredient in the development of society, a senior official has said.

Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development Deputy Minister Jessie Majome said the Global Political Agreement was clear on the principals' commitment to see gender equality prevailing in Zimbabwe.

A mob of Rwandan rebels gang-raped at least 179 women last month during a weekend raid on a community of villages in eastern Congo, the United Nations said Monday.

The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or F.D.L.R., was blamed for the attack. The F.D.L.R. is an ethnic Hutu rebel group that has been terrorizing the hills of eastern Congo for years, preying on villages in a quest for the natural resources beneath them.

The Prime Minister and Head of Government, Philemon Yang has received in audience, the new Central African Regional Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Diana L. Ofwona.

She was in Cameroon to update the government of Cameroon on the recent mutations within the organisation.

Kaleme website reports that Rahnavard has called on the parliament to leave the evaluation of this bill of law to a "group of expert and progressive men and women."

Last week, Iranian media reported that the family protection bill of law, after three years of delay, will be put in the parliament's agenda.

Opponents of this legislation thus organized gatherings and issued articles to protest against it.