Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan and WLP are launching the second Youth Tech Festival for 150 youth from across Jordan with a focus on preparing youth to participate in upcoming elections in November 2010. I am really excited to see what the outcomes of this year's Youth Tech Festival will be! Last year's Youth Tech Festival in Jordan was a resounding success as youth created campaigns and videos to combat violence against women.

Anyone who looks at the Egyptian feminist struggle for both the issues of national liberation or for women's issues, such as lacking access to the judiciary, in the beginning of the second decade in the third millennium would wonder.

"If you had to choose between saving a girl's life or enabling her to go to school, which would you do first?" This was Afghan President Hamid Karzai's reply when I asked him last month if the rights of Afghan women might be sacrificed for a peace settlement with the Taliban.

Women stakeholders have called for at least 30 per cent representation of women in power and decision making in the country.

Women stakeholders have called for at least 30 per cent representation of women in power and decision making in the country.

A women training center is under construction in Keren at a cost of over 20 million Nakfa as part of the concerted endeavors being made to promote women's capacity in all domains.

The head of the NUEW branch in Anseba region, Ms. Alem Belai, indicated that the construction of the modern building is aimed at providing training to women in the region to become self-supporting.

As Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein travels around Burma trying to garner support for the Democratic Party (DP), she is met with admiration and respect. The 62-year-old admits that she owes much of this adulation to her father and former deputy prime minister, the late Kyaw Nyein.

A profound distrust in political parties is hampering female participation in Yemen's struggling democracy, a study released on Tuesday suggests.

The evidence against Burma's junta has been piling up for many years. Thousands upon thousands of girls and women raped as a tactic of war by the Burmese army; children press-ganged to serve as porters; 3,500 villages burned to the ground in recent years; millions of people forced from their homes -- these are some of the crimes against humanity sponsored by the generals who rule their Southeast Asian nation of 50 million people.