Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad, despite the presence of UN security forces, a new Amnesty International report revealed on Wednesday.

UNAMID's Gender Advisory Unit has began mobilizing women representatives in North Darfur Civil Society organizations to participate in the preparatory meeting for the upcoming open day on the 10th Anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, which falls on 7 June.

“I am really happy that the Secretary-General decided to send me to represent him at the 7th Council of Europe's Conference of Ministers responsible for Equality between Women and Men titled "Gender equality: bridging the gap between de jure and de facto gender equality," Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said on 24 May in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the conference took place.

Prime Minister of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Milorad Dodik, said that the country will seek to pass a law that bans female cloaking prevalent among Muslim extreme believers.

“Such law has been adopted in several European countries and we believe that we need to get closer to these European standards,” Dodik said.

Sudan President Omar el-Bashir must account for crimes committed in Dafur especially those against women and children, women leaders have demanded.

The call was made by Nobel Women's Initiative, a group of women who have won the Nobel prize. They are attending the ongoing ICC meeting at Munyonyo.

A poll by Infotrack Harris indicates that women are likely to vote against the proposed constitution largely due to ignorance of its contents.

This is a very sad state of affairs. Those of us who have read through the draft document find it a masterpiece for promoting, enhancing and protecting women's rights. This will be a constitution for the women of Kenya.

Representatives of government ministries and national women's machineries from 14 countries in southern Africa, as well as regional economic communities, civil society organizations and UN agencies came together in Johannesburg, South Africa on 11-12 May for a regional consultation on the Africa UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, hosted by UNIFEM on behalf of the United Nations system.

Herat's Department of Women Affairs (DoWA) held a two-day workshop at the Afghan Journalism Centre last week to establish a better working relationship with the media.
From 25 to 26 May 2010, 20 representatives from local television channels, radio stations and magazines discussed with UN and provincial gender specialists, in the presence of a representative of the Afghan religious institutions, how better they could work together.

At first, Aisha Makasharipova says she wasn't sure why she was being followed.

A resident of Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, Makasharipova began noticing a few weeks ago that she had unwanted company on her way home from work.

Bangladesh's first female contingent to be deployed to an UN peacekeeping mission arrived today (1 June) in quake-ravaged Haiti to carry out humanitarian activities and community policing. A total of 110 female Formed Police Unit (FPU) will work alongside their male colleagues to serve the UN Stabilization mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).