30 August 10 - Human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the UN’s failure to prevent a raid by armed groups who systematically gang raped 200 women in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month. Read

26 August 10 - From VOA News: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday urged the U.N. Security Council to consider new measures to protect civilians in Congo, where more than 150 villagers were raped by rebel groups in late (...) Read

21 August 10 - From National Public Radio (US): The Taliban has denied that its militants tortured, hanged and shot a widow in Afghanistan’s western Baghdis province for adultery. It’s not the principle the Taliban disagrees with — in a lengthy press release, a Taliban spokesman said that (...) Read

20 July 10 - From the Guardian: Human rights groups today urged the Afghan government not to jettison women’s rights as international delegates gathered in Kabul to discuss the possible reintegration of insurgents into society. Read

20 July 10 - From Human Rights Watch: The Cambodian government should act quickly to end violence against sex workers and permanently close the government centers where these workers have been unlawfully detained and abused Read

18 July 10 - The new UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women will pump the bulk of its projected US$500 million annual budget into programming to directly benefit the world’s most vulnerable women. Read

16 July 10 - From Human Rights Watch: Ongoing Taliban attacks on women in Afghanistan show why women’s rights should be a priority in any political agreement with insurgent forces. Read

10 July 10 - From the Associated Press: Iran’s top human rights official said the death by stoning sentence for a 43-year-old woman convicted of adultery is under review. The sentence to execute Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani by stoning drew worldwide outcry after it was publicized by her lawyer, who (...) Read

23 June 10 - A study conducted this spring by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Kenya, reveals systematic abuse perpetrated by Kenyan police on Somali refugees, who have flocked en masse to the camps over the past 20 years. Read

19 June 10 - From Human Rights Watch: A significant number of girls and women in Iraqi Kurdistan suffer female genital mutilation (FGM) and its destructive after-effects. Read