The United Nations' first all-female peacekeeping force made up of 105 Indian policewomen has arrived in Liberia.
They would carry out security duties in forthcoming local elections.
The unit is made up volunteers drawn from across India and is...
Some Japanese women lawmakers have requested the health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa to resign on Monday for calling women 'birth-giving machines' in an earlier speech.
Nearly sixteen lawyers put signatures across the protest letter tagging it as a...
Violence against women, a pandemic as maiming and fatal as any deadly microbe, is not unique to Mexico. It's global.
The unsolved murders in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, of mostly young and indigenous working-class women, are...
Daniel Ortega who won the Presidential elections of Nicaragua last year is considered as the most important figure in the nation's political scenario. However, critics are of the view that his wife Rosario Murillo holds an imminent position in the former.
Women in China, particularly western side, are being slaughtered so that they could become brides of a dead man.
This is because of the prevalence of a weird custom operating in the country according to which, if an unmarried man dies, he must...
South China's Guangzhou municipality is pondering over a law that would be instrumental in broadening the job avenues for women, which were primarily male dominated.
The bill has advocated a fine of 5,000 yuan (about 641 U.S. dollars) for the...
If it were between countries, we'd call it a war. If it were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic. If it were an oil spill, we'd call it a disaster. But it's happening to women, and it's just an everyday affair. It's violence against women, or simply,...
The commander of an all-women Indian UN police unit has arrived in Liberia to head the world body's first ever such specialized force sent on a peacekeeping operation.
The Commandeer of the Indian UN Formed Police Unit (FPU), Seema Dhundiya, along...
To be free from fear is a basic human need and is usually used to indicate the level of human rights in a society. In Taiwan, the status of women has been improving in the last thirty years; however, violence against women still threatens most women....
Trapped in debt and failure in crop production, the farmers in the western Indian state of Maharashtra are driven to commit suicide by despair and hopelessness.
In order to make both ends meet, the farmers first take money from the obvious resources..
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