Africa has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics ...

Nearly a third of Somalia's parliamentary seats will be reserved for female lawmakers in an election next month, the prime minister said, a measure long demanded by women's rights campaigners in the ...

UN Women has warned that rape is now being "used intentionally and systematically" in Sudan, where hunger and displacement deepen daily. Women and girls, the agency stressed, "are not just statistics, ...