The woman in Tahrir Square was worried. "The men were keen for me to be here when we were demanding that Mubarak should go," she told me when I visited Cairo last month.
Through protesting, organising, blogging and hunger-striking, women have taken a central role, but it remains to be seen whether their rights will improve
The Liberal Democrats face the prospect of having no female MPs after the next election if their current poll ratings continue, the Fabian Society says.
Political parties have announced deputy candidate lists. Women organizations argue that female deputy candidates were placed in the least likely spots on the lists to be elected and were used like filling materials.
When anti-government demonstrations first began in Yemen three months ago, many predicted that they were likely to fail because - unlike Tunisia or Egypt - Yemen would not be able to mobilise half of its population.
Today as we celebrate Earth Day, we would be wise to focus on the role of women as environmental leaders.
Most of Macedonia's top companies are managed by men, but women are increasingly making inroads in the world of what they term "elite" business. Macedonia passed a Law on Gender Equality and legal provisions for greater involvement of women in politics, yet there is not a single woman mayor
At the end of April, a committee of countries chosen to work out the details of a U.N.-backed Green Climate Fund holds its first meeting in Mexico, to discuss how to get the fund up and running.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all to help the government implement National Women Development Policy for the welfare of women. She said that a certain quarter “trading on religion” has been trying to mislead people by misinterpreting the women development policy, although Islam as