A summary of the array of presentations and discussions at the 11th AWID Forum is almost impossible. Here, we give a very broad overview of what went on.

At least 60 percent of all women in Sri Lanka have experienced domestic violence, according to the Gender-Based Violence Forum (GBV Forum), a collective of UN and other international and local organisations.

Alual Koch was 13 when she learnt to kill with a gun, fighting government soldiers as a jungle guerrilla in Sudan's devastating north-south civil war.

For four days, Cape Town's convention centre will be filled with a profusion of languages, colours, and ideas as some 2,200 delegates from 144 countries take part in the 11th International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, organised by the Association of Women in Development (AWID).

Statement from AWID

In one week’s time, the 11th International AWID Forum will begin in Cape Town, South Africa. AWID spoke with two South African women’s rights activists about their work, their hopes for and concerns about the Forum.

AWID interviews Shamillah Wilson about the recently held 2nd African Feminist Forum in Uganda. By Rochelle Jones

Amid the celebrations of today's dawn of a new era in American politics, it is worth asking how the expression on the religious face that the United States presents to the rest of the world has changed with the election of Barack Obama as President.