A group of women human rights defenders has appealed to President Benigno Aquino III to “heed the call for justice” and release a jailed nursing mother in the case of 43 health workers who were arrested in Morong, Rizal.

"The mother and child's detention speaks of the continued injustice against Oliveros and the rest of the Morong 43,” said Cristina Palabay, convenor of Tanggol Bai.

JUBA - Col. Rodento Tungun of Southern Sudan Prison Service (SSPS) has told women in southern Sudan to work hard in order to achieve the twenty five percent allocation of the constitutional jobs reserved for their lot by the government.

The Hong Kong-based Asian Legal Resource Center (A.L.R.C.) has called Islamabad to invite the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to conduct a country visit.

A United Nations panel says Arabs, Kurds and other minorities in Iran face discrimination because of their ethnicity.

The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says minorities in the Islamic republic don't enjoy the same rights to free expression, health and housing as other ethnic groups.

More than 1,000 women from twelve different countries will march from Barrancabermeja in the Santander department to the Palenquero military base in Puerto Salgar, Cundinamarca, to protest against a military pact signed between Colombia and the U.S.

As soon as the divorce bill was filed, it immediately generated a lot of emotional reactions from different sectors, especially the Catholic church. Unable to shy away from the debate on the divorce bill, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III recently declared that he is against divorce but is for legal separation with the option to remarry, which some sectors say is tantamount to divorce.

Holding hands, the three young girls sang and giggled as they walked to the corner shop in the summer sunshine to buy a loaf of bread.

But in one ugly moment on Saturday, this scene of childhood innocence was destroyed when a bomb exploded beside them.

In a clearing just outside the southern Philippine town of Sultan Kudarat the leader of the country's biggest Muslim group contemplates an uncertain future.

The newly founded non-governmental organization (NGO), named Social Actions and Poverty Alleviation (SAPA) Inc. is to be launched 'very shortly' in Monrovia.

SAPA with the motto, 'God Cares,' strives for positive sustainable economic empowerment, legal and social reforms for most war-affected women, girls and children in vulnerable communities in post-war Liberia.

The Solomon Islands epitomize all that one associates with a Pacific paradise - sparkling blue sea and miles of pure white beaches fringed by palm trees, free from the rush and clamor of city life. August has been a significant month for the islanders who have been voting in a general election for a 50-member parliament. The candidates were drawn from nine provinces and the capital territory of Honiara.