The sexual exploitation of women in conflict zones is frequently viewed as an inexorable byproduct of war. From Democratic Republic ...Read More
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WFP- Fatima Fuseini and her business partners sit around a table filling plastic bags with rock salt and sealing them with a packing machine. It’s tedious work, but Fatimah says it’s some of the best work she's ever done. She and ...Read More
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the cruelty and injustice of the five-year jail sentence that a Damascus state security court imposed today on Tal Al-Mallouhi, a 19-year-old high school student and blogger, on a charge of “divulging information to ...Read More
Amnesty International has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to step up reforms to its justice system following the conviction of a military general for crimes against humanity. Lieutenant Colonel Kibibi Mutware was sentenced to 20 years ...Read More
The sexual exploitation of women in conflict zones is frequently viewed as an inexorable byproduct of war. From Democratic Republic of Congo where rape has been used as a tactic to gain political control to the conflict in Bosnia where ...Read More
Latina- Mexican womens rights activist Susana Chavez tirelessly fought to bring attention to the decade's long murder of women occurring in Ciudad Juarez. She was an active member of May Our Daughters Return Home, a local group representing victims of ...Read More
SiFy News- Having suffered pain and injustice for decades, women of the northeastern region of the country are coming together to act as interlocutors between various groups and thus play a key role in the peace process, experts ...Read More
They sit patiently in the lobby of the directorate of women's rights at the women's ministry, their sad, bruised faces testimony to the years of ill-treatment and beatings they have been forced to endure. One of the women, Marina, 20, told ...Read More
UNICEF- An official declaration marking the abandonment of female genital cutting was issued recently in the Amibara and the Awash-Fentale districts of Ethiopia’s Afar Region. The effort to abandon cutting started nearly 10 years ago in both districts. In 2008, UNICEF ...Read More
As it began a two-day open debate on women and peace and security, the Security Council today requested the Secretary-General to supply it with detailed information on parties credibly suspected of responsibility for patterns of sexual violence during armed conflict. Expressing ...Read More
Today's judgment by the European Court of Human Rights declaring that Ireland's abortion law violated the rights of a woman who had to travel overseas to have an abortion is an important first step in ensuring that women in Ireland ...Read More