SIMEO NSUBUGA is the Police spokesman for Kampala Extra Region and also the officer in charge of community affairs. He talked to Rachel Kabejja about his work

A raid by Texas police on a compound owned by a fanatic polygamous sect revealed an environment rife with sexual abuse. More than 400 children were removed during the raid last week, and more than 100 women left voluntarily with

California State Assembly Public Safety Committee approved legislation that would create an online database of domestic violence offenders. State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma authored AB 1771, the Domestic Violence Prevention and Right to Know Act of 2008 (see

The Senate voted 91-4 yesterday to apply federal immigration laws to the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and phase out the islands' exploitative "guest worker" program. A 2006 Ms. expose doc...

Club of Madrid, an international non governmental organization dedicated to strengthening democracy around the world, Thursday called for more women in Sierra Leone's politics.

Sudanese youth have told their church leaders they need skills training, jobs and a means of participating in shaping their country's future.

The above is the title of an event, which comes off on May 9 at the National Theatre and is aimed at recognizing the role of women who have impacted significantly on their communities.

Ndi Chia made the challenge at the Annual General Meeting of the National Professional Media Women in Cameroon, NAPMEW, where he gave a talk on "Women in the Media and Challenges" at the Cameroon Cultural Centre, Buea, Friday, April 4.

7,500 female farmers in Bauchi State are to benefit from a special agricultural micro-credit National Poverty Alleviation Programme (NAPEP) facility, the coordinator, Alhaji Sirajo Mai-Angale, has said.

For many of Africa's women, getting access to family planning services is difficult at the best of times. When war intervenes they can find themselves without any services at all, even as they become more vulnerable to sexual violence --

is a revision of the joint School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) web site of IRC and UNICEF, which was launched in 1999. It serves as a discussion forum and an information exchange platform for sector professionals working in the

Goldman Sachs has announced a $100m philanthropic effort, one of the largest in the Wall Street investment bank's history, to provide women, primarily in the developing world, with business and management education. The initiative, called 10,000 Women, is intended to

United Nations, New York — The appointment of Inés Alberdi of Spain as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, has been announced by UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervi . Inés Alberdi has worked for

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government presented the 2007 Gleitsman International Activist Award to Dr. Sakena Yacoobi, in Cambridge on Tuesday, December 4. Yacoobi is the founder and executive director of the Afghan Institute

AIL has dramatically expanded its teacher training program inside Afghanistan. To date, the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) has trained 13,000 teachers in student-centered teaching techniques, immediately improving the quality of education for about 390,000 Afghans. Interactive, student-centered teaching is

I am often asked why I do the kind of work I do with the Afghan Institute of Learning. Each time the question is posed, I am reminded of the children in Peshawar when they first come to school. In

Communique from RAWA ( Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) on International Women's Day, March 08, 2008. " Today on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day, women in the developed countries celebrate it with

to urge the US government and the U.N. to do everything in their power to restore the human rights of Afghan women and girls. Chaired by Mavis Leno, the Feminist Majority Foundation's campaign has brought together more than 200 leading

is an Afghan women's non-governmental organization (NGO) which was founded in 1995 by Professor Sakena Yacoobi to help address the problem of poor access for women and children to education and health services, their subsequent inability to support their lives,

are working across the United States to raise public awareness and raise funds to support women-led organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan . Action Teams are comprised of campus, school and community groups, book clubs, families, and co-workers. Some Action Teams