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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi formally accepted her Nobel Peace Prize today, more than two decades after it was awarded to honor her fight for democracy.

"We have been waiting for you for a very long time," Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland told Suu Kyi. "In your isolation, you have become a moral leader for the whole world."

Correctional Services Solomon Islands (CSSI) will launch its first gender audit report at a special event in Honiara on Monday 18 June 2012.

The report “Cooling Agents and Panadol” is the product of a two month CSSI led audit which assessed CSSI's progress towards gender quality in its work and workforce.

The report highlights CSSI's success as a leader for gender equality within Solomon Islands and regionally.

The International Criminal Court swears in Gambian lawyer Fatou Bensouda as its new prosecutor Friday, the first woman to assume the top job at the world war crimes tribunal.

She replaces Argentinean Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the inaugural prosecutor for the world court, whose nine-year term ends this month.

Now that Algeria has the largest proportion of women lawmakers in the Arab world, workmen at the national assembly building have some urgent modifications to make.

Police union 'insulted' by Jacob Zuma's political appointment of ANC member and former social worker

She is a former social worker with a corporate background and diploma from the University of Wales. She is also, South Africans hope, the saviour of the nation's corruption-riddled, scandal-plagued police service.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Malawi's new President Joyce Banda and several other female present and former heads of state and government gathered in Washington Monday for a panel discussion on the challenges of international development, democracy and global security.

Windhoek - Namibia's political parties have paid a lot of lip service and demonstrated lack of commitment to mainstreaming gender issues and incorporating women in leadership positions, lobbyists have said.

Women of different political persuasions have recommended that they be included more in the drafting of parties' manifestos and policies and that those policy documents should have clear cut positions on women's participation.

In the face of the most prolonged government crackdown in the Arab Spring, Syrian women are protesting alongside men, showing the world they will not be silenced -- whether by their government or by fears of an Islamist alternative.

Pretoria — President Jacob Zuma has appointed nine commissioners to the Commission for Gender Equality.

The President has appointed Mfanozelwe Shozi as a full-time member and chairperson with effect from June 1 to January 30, 2017.

Thoko Mpumlwana is also appointed as a full-time member with effect from June 1 to May 31, 2017, while Janine Hicks appointment is with effect from June 7 - May 6, 2016.

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With insecurity and economic hardship, Iraqis are still paying the price of years of oppression and war. And women carry a heavy burden. Hanaa Edwar, a human rights activist, has never stopped fighting for women's rights.