Female representation in the newly elected parliament is at its highest level in the history of the Turkish republic with 50 female deputies, thanks to campaigns to raise awareness on the subject.The former parliament had only 24 female deputies, 4.4 percent of the total.
The European Union (EU) has made almost no progress in closing the wage gap between women and men in the last decade, according to a recent report by the European Commission.
All indications are that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State will adopt the Gender and Development Protocol at the upcoming SADC Summit in Lusaka in August 2007.
"Much has been achieved under the committee's supervision, but we still have a long way to go in achieving full compliance with all the convention's terms," UN General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Al Khalifa told an audience Monday at UN World Headquarters in New York of mostly women delegates
"Women in Zimbabwe are demanding respect and protection for their own human rights and the rights of members of their communities - often in the face of severe repression, including arbitrary arrest and torture," said Amnesty's secretary-general Irene Khan in a foreword to the 42-page report.
India's first woman president was sworn into office Wednesday and promised to fight for the rights of women and an end to the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses.
The bid for the White House between leading Democratic hopefuls Sens. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and Hillary Clinton, D-New York, is turning ugly, with Clinton criticizing Obama as inexperienced on national security and Obama firing back at what he called a "fabricated controversy."
A battle of the sexes erupted at the Ontario legislature Tuesday after an editorial photo illustration, deemed by many to be derogatory to women, was discovered on the website of Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella.
Acting in major part on a recent report by Amnesty International and Native American activists, the U.S. Congress is moving to provide additional funding to protect Native American women who suffer disproportionate levels of rape and other sexual abuse.