Underscoring the role that women play in building stronger societies, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for greater numbers of female police officers to serve with United Nations peacekeeping missions worldwide.

National laws must be overhauled to make it easier for women to prove that they are the victims of gender-based crimes, especially at the International Criminal Court, two Nobel peace prize laureates said on Friday.

Barely 24 hours after holding a major press conference, the Coalition of Civil Society Women of Liberia (COCISWOL), has staged a major demonstration in Monrovia, presenting an eleven count petition to the Minister of Gender and Development Varbah Gayflor.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed Lisa Buttenheim of the United States as his Special Representative and top United Nations official in Cyprus, where UN-backed talks are being held in a bid to reunify the island.

Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has commended female officers taking part in United Nations missions across the world.

Eight officers, one of them female, will soon leave for a peacekeeping mission in Sudan.

Seven others recently successfully completed their missions in Liberia and East Timor.

Illiteracy, poverty and negative cultural and traditional practices are impeding the advancement of women and girls in Upper Nile State.

Concluding a two-day conference bringing together government leaders and nearly 100 experts on women's human and political rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the International Women's Commission for a Just and Sustainable Israeli-Palestinian Peace (IWC) reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening their joint action to call for concerted action to end the occupation and achieve a two-state solution based on the 4 June 1967 borders, a

Female migrants to Delhi from India's north-east are increasingly being subjected to sexual attacks made worse by police attitudes

The term “sexual violence as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) is “any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffic, or otherwise directed, against a person's sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting, including but not limited to home and work.” Sexual violence against female students has become e

A round table hosted by the EU Ambassador to Montenegro Mr. Leopold Maurer, to mark International Women's Day, entitled: Women's Rights in Montenegro, was held in Podgorica today.