Here’s how some Indian doctors, lawyers and judges are going the extra mile to traumatize rape victims, according to a Human Rights Watch report:

Egyptian political parties marginalize the role of women within party structures and higher committees, according to a new report issued by the Cairo-based Egyptian Center for Women's Rights.

The arrest and trial of human rights activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari is part of an ongoing narrative.

If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. And he'll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank.

The California Senate passed a resolution Aug. 30 condemning the pending bill in Uganda that would jail gays and lesbians for life and punish some with the death penalty. The vote was 21 - 14.

United States foreign policy abortion restrictions have often hampered African NGOs’ efforts to reduce deaths and disabilities associated with unsafe abortion procedures. In a positive recent development, however, the fight for African women’s access to safe abortion services took a small but important step forward.

"I felt scared. When I looked around, all the mothers had finished giving birth, while I was still there. The blood that flowed from me had already dried and caked onto my body," Lisa, a 19-year-old married mother of three, says, recounting her experience in post-abortion care at a public hospital here in the Philippine capital.

Parents' group protests school curriculum church calls 'criminal'

Introduction to a series of articles published to mark the campaign's 4th anniversary

FRIDAY FILE: How do women fare in this rich nation with a relatively poor women’s rights record?