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Juana Hilda Naranjo no longer worries when it rains.

South Africa's Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Bridget Mabandla, became the first woman in 51 years to hold the seat of President of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation today.

Iran has sentenced a women's rights activist to flogging and almost three years in jail for taking part in a 2006 protest over "discriminatory" laws, the ILNA news agency reported Tuesday.

The Baroness Pola Manzila Uddin, a member of the British House of Lords, told ABC News that she is convinced that many Muslim women can, and should, help prevent terrorist attacks, because women are every family's early warning radar.

One of the long-identified strategies for the advancement of women is increasing the number of women in politics and governance. Only a few countries such as Norway can parade a gendered legislature where 50 percent of the members are women.

Women constitute 52 percent of Zimbabwe's population, but are not fully represented in politics. Now a group of female politicians plans to change that.
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Any woman who has been through Kenya's healthcare system will not be at all surprised by the findings of a recent report that shows how women's human rights are routinely violated by doctors, nurses and other health professionals.

A court in Uzbekistan handed three-year suspended sentences to seven women and a three-year prison term to one woman Monday for being members of a banned Islamic group, a rights campaigner said.

Judicial authorities in Iran have sentenced two women activists who participated in a peaceful protest against discriminatory laws in June 2006 to more than 30 months in jail and ten lashes.