Groups representing Afghan women warned the international community on Wednesday against pursuing a peace deal with the Taliban, fearing a return to the austere Islamist rule that saw women banned from education and work.Women from a United Nations agency, the Institute for Inclusive Security and
Liberian women most of whom could not read and write for the past several decades but were seen as mere housewives or middle level business women, whilst their male counterparts had dominantly taken lead in national affairs.But today, this trend is completely different and has brought about a cha
At Thursday’s London conference on Afghanistan, more than 50 countries will to try flesh out the details for a plan to gradually hand security to Afghans, which involved strengthening and expanding Afghan security forces, improving the way donor aid to Afghanistan is spent and reintegrating Talib
Nepalese women are playing a greater role in politics and economics these days, but their participation in politics is far from the 50 percent that would represent equal and fair representation.
The advancement of women’s rights is critical to political and economic progress everywhere around the world.
Following years of lobbying by civil-society organizations, Lebanon’s Cabinet on Friday approved the adoption of a women’s quota for the municipal elections.
"My great dream has come true: half of the members of my cabinet are women, and half are men," said a visibly moved Morales when he presented his new team of ministers Saturday, the day after he was sworn in to a second term."This was an impressive surprise," Jimena Leonardo, one of the heads of
The Ugandan parliament has banned the controversial practice known as female genital mutilation, or FGM. Different levels of punishment are codified in the act for those who violate the ban.
With 45 percent of Haitian households headed by women, a number of United Nations agencies are targeting their relief efforts at Haitian women to help them overcome their human and material losses from the recent earthquake."They are the ones who are the economic as well as the psychological main