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...
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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 Juárez 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...
There’s an old Vietnamese proverb 'Den nha ai nay rang' that means, loosely, ‘Shine the light only in one’s own home [and not on others’].’ This approach illustrates part of the problem of why violence against wives and girlfriends may sometimes occur...
Amsterdam's red-light district is renowned for its various vices, and now one of its most famous trades, prostitution, is getting a statue in its honor.
That’s right, Els Rijerse is busy these days with making of the piece and that it would likely...
China like India has a stereotypical patriarchal society where boys are preferred over girls.
Consequent upon which, recently, more than 70% of female undergraduates have experienced discrimination based on their gender as they struggle to available...
Life for women in Ethiopia is really deplorable particularly during delivery, as it has been estimated that it is a chief reason for native women’s death.
In far-flung regions, women every now and then suffer in labor for days. Those who survive the...
A family is a place where everyone should be safe, yet violence, abuse and neglect within the family are major problems in New Zealand, which often goes unreported.
New Zealand boasts to tighten up its laws against domestic violence. But is it really...
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Suzanne Swift, the then twenty one year old Army Specialist, was arrested for showing her reluctance in going back to fight in Iraq. She served in Iraq for a year but decided she won’t return and went AWOL. Not only did she feel the war lacked purpose, Swift said her superiors repeatedly sexually harassed her while serving in Iraq.
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