Senator Robert Menendez introduced a bill in the Senate yesterday that would regulate the misleading advertising practices of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs). Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women’s Services Act (see

Affirmative action advocates are urging voters in Colorado to speak out against the fraudulent practices of petitioners for an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative. Ward Connerly has organized ballot init...

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Kadiata Malick Diallo is vice-president of the Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and a deputy in Mauritania's National Assembly. She spoke to IRIN about her journey into politics and the role of women in the emerging Mauritanian democracy.

Global Unification the Gambia, on Saturday, 15th March, organised a seminar on the issue of women empowerment and rights to decision-making, at the Kanifing Municipal Council chambers in Kanifing.

Policy-makers are finally finding mechanisms to account for the colossal informal sector. Every Kenyan knows that the vast majority of services we consume are provided "off the books".

Mauritania is often held up as a beacon when it comes to the proportion of women elected to political office - a 20 percent minimum quota was instituted in 2006 - but experts told IRIN once in power many women

A group of rural women in South Kivu has launched a community radio station to promote the welfare of women and girls.

As part of the month of the woman this March, a one day workshop on the promotion of the new sexual violence law in the DRC was held on Monday 31 March 2008 in Kinshasa, under the aegis of the

The Monam group of rape survivors in the northern town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic (CAR) does what it can to keep going, but morale is low and money tight.