UN expert berates Britain's 'sexist culture'

UNITED NATIONS - A group of Jeay Sindh Quomi Mahaz members on Wednesday staged a demonstration in front of the UN building to protest against what they called increasing incidents of persecution and violence, especially of Hindu communities in Sindh ...

A wide-ranging interview with Grete Lochen, Ambassador for Norway in Sri Lanka on women's contribution to national development and political participation, engagement in peace processes and the United Nations Q: The Norwegian Embassy in Colombo ...

The men and women who leave countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to work abroad are not expendable Tahmima Anam April 5, 2014 Last Updated at 22:23 IST When I was growing up outside of Bangladesh, my parents were careful to remind me that we had not become ...

United Nations: India is placed at 111th position out of 189 countries in a list prepared by an international organisation that ranks nations on the number of women representatives in parliament. The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), an international ...

Madhya Pradesh Government today inked an MoU with the United Nations to constitute women's squads in every village. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while attending the event said the government has signed an MoU with 'UN Women', a United Nations' ...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has said that the level of the participation of women in the upcoming presidential and provincial council elections in Afghanistan will be a key measure of the success of the polls. Addressing a ...

(ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) presented a new Continent-Wide Initiative on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment at the Seventh Joint Annual Meeting of the Economic Commission for Africa Conference of African ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The share of seats held by women in parliaments around the world rose 1.5 percentage points in the past year to a record 21.8 percent, almost doubling since 1995, a study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and U.N. Women showed on ...

South Sudanese rebels defended their renewed offensive yesterday as condemnation grew of the massacre at the United Nations compound in Bor where women and children