What do driving, voting, wearing pants, and protesting have in common?

Washington - The United States said on Wednesday it was "gravely disturbed" about the mass rape of women in

Last week, a group of twenty-five women who were demonstrating for peace and democracy in Baghdad's Tahrir Square

There was no field manual to consult, no military doctrine to guide the way.

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women kicked off 16 Days of Activism, an international

Rose Mapendo felt ready to die after being kept at a death camp for eight months in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

What does the financial reform package recently signed into law in the US have to do with preventing mass rape in Afr

The Human Rights Committee concluded its ninety-ninth session today, during which it considered and adopted concludin

Obama earlier this week signed the most widely co-sponsored Africa-specific law in U.S. history.

Rape in wartime is a scar on modern society that must be stamped out by ending impunity and changing men's attitudes

Addressing the Commission on the Status of Women's fifty-fourth session this afternoon, Deputy Secretary-General Asha

International Women's Day is celebrated each year on March eighth.

What do women fishing, school building and better farming skills have to do with U.S. national security?

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that full empowerment of women requires expanding economic opportun

Nearly ten years after the adoption by the UN Security Council of its groundbreaking resolution on Women, Peace and S

At the end of September 2009, two sharply contrasting events coincided: the United States Secretary of State Hillary

Violence against women and girls is a virulent form of abuse and discrimination that transcends race, class and natio