The Chief Gender Monitor, Oda Gasinzigwa, has advised a visiting Kenyan delegation, to seek political leadership posi

Keen to defend the country's record because of candidacy for the Nov 12 election to HRC and hopes of qualifying for n

More than one in three men surveyed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's war-torn east admits committing sexual

Last week, coffee in hand, I read a chilling email. Armed men had shot at Dr.

IIDA Women's Development Organization today launched a policy brief report detailing how Somali women's two decades o

Several of them are regular visitors to Peshawar High Court where their respective cases have long been pending.

Speaking at the launch ceremony held at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji, the Forum Chair, Hon.

Yesterday, President Obama's campaign released three statements announcing his endorsement of state ballot initiative

AS the African Development Bank (AfDB) plans to transform the state of gender parity on the African continent, a new

A United Nations independent expert today called on the world body's General Assembly, as well as civil society, to t

Nancy Sanchez has been working for human rights in Colombia for two decades.

During its 52nd Session in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (African Co

Inter Press Service News Agency -- "Adultery Laws Unfairly Target Women, U.N.

Many people erroneously view gender as 'women's presence'.

In a searing, impact-filled letter written to Swiss Armenian woman filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian, human rights activis

Haiti's President Michel Martelly honored Maria Bello on Tuesday for her advocacy work on behalf of the Caribbean cou

The report adds that the FIRs of around 59 per cent of the cases in the province were not registered.