Malawi is quickly becoming unsafe for homosexuals as the country’s police service recently launched a campaign to hunt down and arrest prominent people who are suspected of being gay.

Today, more than half the world's population lives in cities. Every year, hundreds of thousands are uprooted when neighborhoods are cleared to make way for “development”. On 22-26 March, the fifth session of the World Urban Forum will be held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro to address these issues.

A devastating highlight of the findings is that the global financial crisis has virtually wiped out the economic gains that have been made by women over the last few years.

When a two-week meeting on gender empowerment concluded at U.N. headquarters, there were several lingering questions crying out for answers.

The official Declaration appears to overstate the progress made, and to ignore the slow and partial nature of implementation. It underestimates the degree and types of challenges that remain for women in their multiple identities, including the persistence of all forms of violence. Pdf format.

A joint NGO letter calls on governments to adopt a human rights-based approach for all assistance to Haiti. The message will be delivered to donor states, IFIs, and the Office of the UN Special Envoy to Haiti on March 17th, two weeks before the Donors' Conference at the UN.

These set of videos produced by different organizations expose, document, and strengthen the call for an end to violence against women and girls.

Within a space of two months, sectarian strife has ripped through communities in Jos, Plateau State in Nigeria. John Dada from Fantsuam Foundation, an organization that uses technology to alleviate poverty and empower women tells how he has had to help bury 287 dead, almost all women and children.

The European Union is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in Uganda.

We are facing a “fierce new world”, with massive political and economic instability, says feminist activist Gita Sen speaking at a panel at the CSW meeting in New York. This instability, and the connections between militarization, economic crisis, food insecurity, violence, climate change and a rollback on sexual rights, hits women the hardest.