In the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, Thailand, a Regional Workshop on Gender Sensitive and Coordinated Violence against Women (VAW) Services is being held from 28th to 30 of this month.
The workshop is being organised by ASEAN where...
Spain's prime minister has initiated a crusade against domestic violence in Europe, personifying it as the nastiest form of human rights violations.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero President of the government of Spain preceded by Jose Maria Aznar...
Recently some cases have come from rural China where more than a third of women have committed suicide as a consequence of domestic violence.
On 27th of November, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) organised a news conference...
Violence against women takes various forms, like, assault, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, rape, trafficking in women and girls, forced prostitution, honor killings, dowry-related violence, female infanticide and other harmful practices and...
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While addressing reporters on women issues, UNIFEM's Executive Director, Noeleen Heyzer declared to offer 3.5 million dollars grant to 17 countries in order to combat gender-based violence.
She said that the grant would be used to support the...
Fatema al-Najjar, a 55-year-old Palestinian woman and member of al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Islamic Hamas, gusted amidst Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza Strip injuring four of them.
According to the sources, the woman carried an explosive...
A three-day conference which was held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies gave platform to more than 70 human rights experts, scholars and officials from 19 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
The director of the human rights...
Royal College of Nursing is supporting the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which happens to be on 25th of this month.
It is also be identified as White Ribbon Day, a crusade initiated by a faction of Canadian men in..
The centre of Public Health Ministry has come up with the information that round about 37 women folk becomes prey of violence each day.
They compiled the information from 82 hospitals from first of January to 17th of November according to which...
The state government of Himachal Pradesh, India has come up with a new verdict according to which a female foeticide would be dubbed as a Murder and any body informing the state government regarding the crime would be offered Rs. 10,000.
Mr....
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