Women

• Farmers sell wives after crops fail September 7, 2009
• UN may shelve creation of new women's body September 5, 2009
• Development: Dying at childbirth every minute September 3, 2009
• Coup protester gang-raped by Honduran police August 25, 2009
• Karzai's secret U-turn on Afghan rape law August 15, 2009
• Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights August 14, 2009
• Europe: Financial crisis leads to rapes August 13, 2009
• Tear gas fired at protesters outside Lubna Hussein trial August 5, 2009
• Medical papers by ghostwriters pushed therapy August 4, 2009
• Femicides of Juarez - violence against women in Mexico August 3, 2009
• Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial August 3, 2009
• Nepal: Women push for gender equality in new constitution August 3, 2009
• Italy approves abortion drug July 31, 2009
• Bangladesh: Too young to marry July 31, 2009
• Rwanda: Credit for women's development July 30, 2009
• Sudanese woman to give up immunity to stand trial July 30, 2009
• Rights, Bulgaria - Two women take on defense ministry July 29, 2009
• Nicaragua abortion ban a violation, rights group says July 28, 2009
• KBR sued over headscarf ban July 23, 2009
• Haiti - Women 'more protected' to report sexual violence July 22, 2009
• Philippines: Legal system falls short on human trafficking July 22, 2009
• Uganda : Women press for domestic violence bill July 17, 2009
• DR-Congo: Rape by regular army a growing problem, HRW Says July 16, 2009
• New policy permits asylum for battered women July 15, 2009
• Sudanese women flogged for wearing trousers in violation of strict Islamic law July 13, 2009
• Law will let Afghan husbands starve wives who withhold sex July 10, 2009
• Dominican Republic: Losing freedom but not dignity July 9, 2009
• Mexico's women make gains in politics July 7, 2009
• Gender finally moving to forefront of AIDS fight July 7, 2009
• More female veterans are winding up homeless July 6, 2009
• Fashion on trial: France debates whether women can wear niqabs July 6, 2009
• States defund women's commissions July 6, 2009
• COBRA's high cost bites into jobless safety net June 15, 2009
• Countries at war get little aid for mothers and children June 9, 2009
• Protests over Kashmir rapes continue June 7, 2009
• India's electrifying women June 1, 2009
• Africa: the deadly toll of abortion by amateurs June 1, 2009
• Indigenous rape victims in Mexico fight military impunity May 29, 2009
• Nicaragua: Total ban on abortion violates human rights, says UN May 28, 2009
• Rapes soar in Eastern Congo's culture of impunity May 27, 2009