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The push for equality stopped years ago. Women need to wake up to what has really happened.

Narrating her life and struggle, Ghulam Sughra, a recipient of International Women of Courage Award, on Tuesday told students that education was a must for women to bring in better changes in their own and others' lives.

Ms. Almas Jiwani, President of the National Committee for UN Women – Canada addressed an audience of over 400 individuals at the 2011 Pakistan Day festivities organized under the auspices of the MQM (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) and its annual community event.

Bangladeshi women are pushing government to implement the recently approved National Women Development Policy (NWDP) 2011, which has met with strong resistance from Islamic clergy.

Leaders and activists of the Jatiya Mahila Sangstha (National Women's Organisation) recently held rallies and formed human chains across major cities demanding the policy's immediate enforcement.

Pakistan will host the 7th meeting of the women speakers from around the world in November this year.

The woman in Tahrir Square was worried. "The men were keen for me to be here when we were demanding that Mubarak should go," she told me when I visited Cairo last month. "But now he has gone, they want me to go home".

Iranian women will take to the streets in a show of solidarity with Bahraini women who are continually falling victim to violation of government forces.

An all-female delegation of women from Paktika Province convened for the first time April 25.

Influential female Afghan representatives, like the director of women's affairs for Paktika, attended.

“It is my responsibility to reach out and help the women and to let them know they have rights,” said Dr. Bibi Hawa, Paktika DoWA.

The "Arab Spring" has received copious attention in the American media, but one of its crucial elements has been largely overlooked: the striking role of women in the protests sweeping the Arab world. Despite inadequate media coverage of their role, women have been and often remain at the forefront of those protests.

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has called on his countrymen to reflect on their history and future prospects in a spirit of unity. He made the appeal as Sierra Leone marks 50 years of independence from British rule.