Cooper and a 60 Minutes team report that the most frequent targets of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are women. The war is, in fact, a war against women, and the weapon used to destroy them, their families and whole communities, is rape.
On 24-25 January, 2008, Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) is hosting the African Women’s Consultation on Darfur. Sixty civil society representatives and experts from Sudan will meet to speak on the conditions and violence faced by women in the Darfur conflict.
Twelve Mongolian women, all running for office in their homeland, are currently touring the United States to gain first-hand knowledge of politics, campaigns and leadership.
Government should channel finances towards gender equality and women's empowerment programmes, says Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi.
The Political Parties Law stipulates that 30 percent of the House of Representatives and the People's Representative Council should be female. But the reality is that only 11.27 percent of the House's 550 members are women.
Leading feminists spoke out yesterday against the sexist comments of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Indicating a change in its stand on reservation for women in Assemblies and Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said it was ready to back the Election Commission’s proposal of 33 per cent reservation for women in allotment of party ticket.
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the State Committee for Family, Women and Children’s Affairs signed today a joint project “21st century without violence against women” aimed at creating an enabling environment for reducing violence against women in Aze
If elected in the April balloting, Blanca Ovelar would become the country's first woman head of state and the third woman elected president in South America in recent years. Women now lead Argentina and Chile.