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6/3/2009
Sri Lanka: Children paying a heavy price in conflict
Children are being killed, witnessing their family and parents killed, being separated, and suffering injuries including burns, fractures, shrapnel and bullet wounds.
6/3/2009
Africa: African Women Officials Call Upon UN for Gender Perspective on Crises
More than 15 African Ministers from Africa are attending the Commission on the Status of Women session in New York and call for countries to take into account the unique perspective of African women.
6/3/2009
Egypt: Family threatened by police for complaining of torture of woman
Mona Said Thabet went to a police station north of Cairo after she was assaulted by two men at her sister's home. The men were reported to have been police informers.
6/3/2009
Liberia: Court dedicated to prosecuting sexual violence crimes inaccessible to rural women
The women’s rural network said a permanent presence of prosecutors devoted to rape cases is needed close to where they live to ensure cases are handled without delay.
6/3/2009
Israel/Palestine: Feminist organizing against the Gaza conflict
AWID interview with Eilat Maoz of the Coalition of Women for Peace, an Israeli organization that works for peace in Israel and Palestine.
3/3/2009
UPDATE: Pakistan: Mukhtar Mai’s case scheduled for Wednesday March 4th
There continues to be political interference in this case and regular serious threats to Ms Mai's life and the lives of family members in an attempt to pressure her to drop the charges against the 13 accused of gang-raping her in 2002.
2/3/2009
India: Women in Bangalore are facing serious violence and attacks
More than 80 attacks and cases of moral policing have been reported from all over Karnataka in the last six months.
2/3/2009
Africa: Africa for Women's Rights campaign is launched
The campaign's aim is to call on African states to ratify international and regional women's human rights protection instruments and to respect them in law and practice.
27/2/2009
Bahrain: Discrimination and sectarian oppression on the rise
The percentage of Shiite representatives in the country's institutions is on the decline. In the year 2003 the figure was 18%; it now stands at 13%.
26/2/2009
Iraq: War Widows Face Dire Need With Little Aid
Some widows have been coerced into “temporary marriages”, others have become prostitutes, and some have joined the insurgency in exchange for steady pay.