In Peshawar, Pakistan, the sermons of radical imams are carried on loudspeakers atop the minarets of mosques, and the words echo in the narrow streets.
The Pakistani Taliban is strong in Peshawar. In recent months, the Taliban leadership has used these radical sermons to step up recruitment of young fighters in their jihad against the Pakistani government and across the border in Afghanistan.

On August 3, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed a National Action Plan to enact the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

Thousands of Congolese citizens are being deported from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) under alarming circumstances, say humanitarian workers.

"The deportees have nothing with them, everything was taken; there are cases of violence, rape and sexual abuse," said Severine Flores, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

With the Jammu and Kashmir High Court more or less set to have more judges to deal with pending cases, history is likely to be made as the new appointments may include a woman candidate, sources said.
The union law ministry is likely to announce the appointment of judges against vacancies in the High Court very soon.

Young Nepalese women from the Newar ethnic community participate in a parade held to mark the declaration of the Newar Autonomous Region in Kathmandu on Dec. 26.

Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala has said representation of women in the High Level Political Mechanism (HLPM) is necessary to ensure women participation in the peace process.

She asked the women lawmakers on Tuesday to start lobbying for inclusion of a woman representative in the mechanism, which is headed by her father Girija Prasad Koirala.

“I am not a woman prime minister,” Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India's leader. “I am a prime minister.” But the question, here in Asia, is whether there really is such a thing as a woman prime minister.

A women contingent of the CRPF will leave for civil war stricken Liberia tonight as part of the United Nations Peace Keeping assignment. The fourth women contingent to be sent to Liberia by the largest paramilitary force in the country comprises 106 women personnel besides 19 male officers and others.

While women in Pakistan are being liberated in the world of today, violence against them is still alarmingly high, and those living in hostels or on there own are particularly vulnerable, said rights activists.

Sexual violence is used as a weapon of war in Colombia by all parties in the country's longstanding armed conflict, and its main victims are women and girls, states a report recently released by Intermón Oxfam, backing up claims made repeatedly by national and international human rights groups.