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Supporters of alleged rapist, girl’s 39-year-old headmaster, stormed police station in effort to prevent arrest

Dozens of people held a sit-in protest and were later arrested by US Capitol Police, in the Cannon House Office Building.

Almost one third (32%) of women aged 20 to 24 in Eastern and Southern Africa – around 50 million – were married before 18 years old.

Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Unite to Urge The Gambias Government to Uphold Landmark Law Banning Female Genital Mutilation

Almost one third (32%) of women aged 20 to 24 in Eastern and Southern Africa - around 50 million – were married before 18 years old. To address this pervasive problem, the Southern African Developme

Equality Now (EN), a leading international women’s rights organization that uses the law to protect and promote women’s and girls’ rights, will hold its annual Make Equality Reality Gala on October 11, 2023 in New York City.

Several international women's rights organizations have remained silent as terrorists have killed and sexually assaulted Israelis in an attack over the weekend.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - The UN’s high-level appointments have mostly been on the basis of “equitable geographical rotation”—with Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean taking turns.But a proposal for future appointments and for candidates for elective office-– based on gender rotation—is gaining ground against a world body which is mostly male-oriented even at its highest echelons, with nine all-male Secretaries-General (UNSG) and onl...

The UN’s high-level appointments have mostly been on the basis of “equitable geographical rotation”—with Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean taking

Advocacy group says lack of gender equality at the heart of the UN is making it harder to combat a growing hostility to the issue around the world