May 30, 2012
Malawi: women protest over 'trouser attacks'
Hundreds of people have protested in Blantyre in Malawi about attacks on women for wearing trousers.
World News
May 30, 2012
Bahrain: Shia cleric warns troops not to attack women
Bahrain's leading Shia Muslim cleric has told his followers to retaliate if women are attacked, in a warning to the country's security forces.
May 30, 2012
India: Where women rule, and men are suffragettes
In the small hilly Indian state of Meghalaya, a matrilineal system operates with property names and wealth passing from mother to daughter rather than father to son - but some men are campaigning for change.
May 30, 2012
Colombia: women zoom ahead in politics
When I arrived in Colombia in July of 1994, I was surprised to see women in jobs usually held by men in almost every labor field, and especially amazed to see so many women in important leadership positions in finance and economics.
May 30, 2012
Egypt: women missing from formal politics
The remarkable revelation of the Egyptian revolution concerns women. It turns out that the women of Egypt are at the heart of our politics.
May 30, 2012
Tunisia: Facing up to tyranny: how a girl and her blog helped change the world
'I have heard many descriptions for this revolution. Like Facebook Revolution. It was not a Facebook revolution, it started on the ground, when Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to his body, and the people in Sidi Bouzid started to demonstrate and were attacked by police.
May 30, 2012
Michelle Bachelet Statement at 2012 First Regular Session of UN Women Executive Board
Statement of Michelle Bachelet Under-Secretary- General and UN Women Executive Director at First Regular Session of UN Women Executive Board 2
May 30, 2012
Japan: Youngest Ever Female Mayor-Elect Wants to Change Women's Lives
Naomi Koshi, the 36-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer who won the recent mayoral election here has vowed to change the lives of women in Japan.
Her drive to join the political world originates from seeing so many women being forced to choose between family and work.
May 30, 2012
South Korea: Women Take Center Stage in Korean Politics
Women have been kicking through the glass ceiling in many areas of Korean society over the past decades. But, it was only recently that the phenomenon spread to politics, long regarded as a male domain.