Women

• Afghan women jailed for being victims of rape August 18, 2008
• Ground-breaking gender protocol signed in for Southern Africa August 18, 2008
• Why soldiers rape: Culture of misogyny, illegal occupation, fuel sexual violence in military August 13, 2008
• Abortion rights advocates campaign against South Dakota ballot measure August 12, 2008
• Georgia charts setbacks for reproductive freedom August 5, 2008
• Sex assaults against women in military called 'epidemic' July 31, 2008
• Intimate violence still a big killer of women July 25, 2008
• McCain's war on women July 21, 2008
• Media lessons from rural women in India July 21, 2008
• Gaza siege batters women July 16, 2008
• Pressure to be sexy leads under-14s to self-harm July 14, 2008
• Single moms' poverty spikes after welfare overhaul July 3, 2008
• Mistreatment of widows a poorly kept secret June 23, 2008
• Women leaders ask where is our money June 22, 2008
• Poll finds scant support for criminalizing abortion June 18, 2008
• Women targeted with rape and beatings to intimidate Mugabe opponents June 17, 2008
• Solitary confinement and strip searches of girls in Texas youth prison June 12, 2008
• Army sexual assaults top all services combined June 4, 2008
• Public hearings grant justice to rural women in India June 2, 2008
• 'Honor' killings, suicides, on the rise in Iraqi Kurdistan May 24, 2008
• Nine of 10 teen girls experience sexual harassment and sexism May 15, 2008
• Talcum powder can provoke deadly ovarian cancer May 15, 2008
• Women bridging borders to beat violence May 7, 2008
• 'Honor killings' become the weapon to subjugate women in Iraq April 28, 2008
• Thousands in Chile protest ban on 'morning-after' pill April 23, 2008
• Male guardianship policies harm women in Saudi Arabia April 21, 2008
• France bans websites promoting anorexia 'cult' April 16, 2008
• Oklahoma Senate approves anti-abortion bill April 14, 2008
• Family planning gets mere sliver of aid pie April 11, 2008
• Rape case to be reopened after police are criticized April 9, 2008
• Yemen: Eight-year-old girl asks for divorce in court April 9, 2008
• Struggling to undo the damage of sexual violence April 1, 2008
• November ballots split anti-abortion strategists March 27, 2008
• Witnesses describe beating of female prisoner for exposing corruption March 26, 2008
• Cuban women inform communities about HIV March 26, 2008
• In Iraq, jailed women tell of abuse March 22, 2008
• UN: Sudan carried out mass-rapes in Darfur March 20, 2008
• Majority of rapists go unpunished in DRC March 18, 2008
• EU 'half-hearted' in backing gender equality March 13, 2008
• Indigenous candidate disqualified because she is 'not a man' March 12, 2008