The Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance has called on gender ministers to craft a strong rights-based appro

"Two excellent stories, one by Buzzfeed's Jina Moore and another by Lauren Wolfe at Foreign Policy, recently bro

Colombia's former minister of justice emphasized the need for the country's judges to familiarize themselves with int

Every day, women around the world are cracking glass ceilings.

In the last few days, while the world has been overwhelmed by the flow of information about atrocities committed by I

Women groups and Civil Society Organisations have made their inputs into the Sierra Leone in-country monitoring of th

Operation Protective Edge and the costs of war in the latest round of the Israel-Palestine conflict have dominated al

Activist groups called on African government officials to ban child marriage amid President Barack Obama's first U.S.

Since the Seneca Falls Convention launched the women's rights movement in the United States 166 years ago, wise men h

Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Susan Shabangu has launched the 2014 National Women's Month program

Africa will celebrate on 31 July the African Women?s Day, which was declared by the African Union after the first Pan

April, Syeda Ghazala made headlines in Pakistan, becoming the first female to head a major police station in restive

The Convention on the Elimination of Violence against Women is still missing, but progress on other dimensions of thi

The program of listening to problems facing women in the rural areas, opened this year by the government, indicates t

On Tuesday July, 15, 2014, two of the United Nations System Agencies, the Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) an

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The Moremi Initiative has launched the 2014 MILEAD Fellows Leadership Institute to train young women to develop their

More women should play instrumental roles in determining the country's defense and diplomatic policies, MKs said at a

Prominent women-leaders from the Central-West region of Western province excelled to greater heights in knowledge and

ISLAMABAD: The government of Denmark has provided a grant of $1 million to support UN Women, the United Nations entit

As ongoing tensions and what has been called “the politics of hate” rises to a critical point today follo

After gaining its independence three years ago, South Sudan got a rush of media attention.

The state government has reinforced its commitment to reducing violence.

Somali Ministry of Women and Human Rights in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations