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

There are no Haitians in the Montreal neighborhood where Lovely lives.

Human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis was shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in the restive east Libyan city

What started as a normal day for an ordinary young woman here in Libya turned into a nightmare when a security guard

RWANDA, EASTERN AFRICA: To curb continuing cases of rape violence in Rwanda's refugee camps, the government of Rwanda

Concern is mounting that British aid money may be funding police who are using rape as a tool of state-sanctioned tor

Last week Cabinet approved the Gender Commission Bill which is likely to be tabled in Parliament next month.

India has rebuffed accusations by a U.N.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo there have been more than two decades of armed conflict, sexual violence against

Pressure on the Sudanese government to release Meriam Ibrahim stepped up on Monday with a formal complaint against au

Nearly 20 years ago, the world came together in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women.

JUBA, 13 May 2014 (IRIN) - Sexual and gender-based violence might not be a new phenomenon in South Sudan, but the cur

As the recent abduction of nearly 300 Nigerian girls by terror group Boko Haram sheds light on the dramatic situation

Since late November, Ukrainians have assembled in the capital city to protest current government regime.

A number of alleged domestic violence killings in the past year in Lebanon have fueled a renewed attention on women's

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday withheld his signature and instead asked for revisions to a new law that righ

The Country Representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Mr.

The NDP is joining forces with the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) to urge the Conservative government to

Violence Against Women and Girls is rife in the Pacific and various programs are being developed to counter this.`26

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of women illegally and subjecting many to torture and i

Jenny Pierce's recent piece about El Salvador on the Inter-American Development Bank's blog, Sin Miedos, questioned w