"We prefer to defend our rights with bloodshed and die rather than wait another 500 years," says Esperanza Huanca, a Quechua Indian who is one of the 84 women in the constituent assembly that is rewriting Bolivia's constitution.
The Kuwaiti Parliament unanimously passed a law earlier this week to restrict women's rights by restricting the hours that women are allowed to work. Women will be banned from working between 8:00 pm and 7:00 am with an exception only for women working in the medical profession.
More than 100 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were arrested June 11 in Filabusi, Zimbabwe during a peaceful demonstration to launch the Peoples' Charter, which includes demands for social rights and liberties.
Uganda's position to increase the number of women in the military, police and prisons services, professions that have largely remained a preserve of men was presented by the State Minister for Gender, Rukia Isanga at the ongoing 8th Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers' Meeting at Speke Resort Mu
Women business executives from Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia and Syria joined from 20-26 May 2007 to exchange best business practices and share personal experiences at Women Business Leaders Summit Programme in Washington, D.C.,
More women in political and public offices would lead to less corruption and better governance, according to the World Bank.
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The future of women on the globe attracted immense attention, lobbying, and talk last week as 32 delegations of women affairs ministers from the 53 Commonwealth countries jetted into Uganda and pitched camp at Speke Resort Munyonyo on the shores of Lake Victoria.
"Women who go to work every day in Afghanistan are heroines," says journalist Friba Chalkhi Habib. She knows what she is talking about: the 30-year-old is regularly threatened or insulted, like many Afghan women in high-profile jobs.
Sisterhood is powerful, the slogan goes, so powerful that women are propelling Sen. Hillary Clinton to the front of the Democratic pack in Florida and nationwide.