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Togolese women declare sex strike to get protest backing Women from the Let's Save Togo coalition called Sunday on all females in the country to refrain from sex for a week to force Togolese men into backing the group during their demonstrations.

27 August 2012

Women directors take front row at Venice film festival Hollywood veterans will brush shoulders with up and coming starlets and auteurs in Venice starting on Wednesday for the film festival in which women directors are set to take centre stage.

24 August 2012

Abortion seekers 'seven times' more likely to be abused Women seeking an abortion are seven times more likely to report physical or sexual abuse at the hands of their partners than the US national average for domestic violence, a study published Monday found.

22 August 2012

Dictator's daughter to run for S. Korea presidency South Korea's ruling party overwhelmingly voted for the daughter of an assassinated dictator to be its presidential candidate Monday, the first time a major party has chosen a woman to run for the post.

20 August 2012

Arrests, breasts, chainsaws: Punk world backs Pussy Riot A topless Ukrainian feminist felled a cross with a chainsaw, balaclava-clad New Yorkers braved arrest to picket an Orthodox church and Bulgarian punks re-decorated a war memorial.

18 August 2012

Colombia rebels release two hostages: Red Cross Leftist Colombian guerrillas on Monday released two women they had held captive for nearly three weeks in the east of the country.

16 August 2012

Demos in Tunisia for women's rights and against Islamists Thousands of Tunisians demonstrated in the capital late Monday for women's rights in the biggest show of force by the opposition since April as the Islamist-led government faces growing dissent.

15 August 2012

Taiwan couple in same-sex Buddhist wedding Two women tied the knot on Saturday in Taiwan's first same-sex Buddhist wedding, a move rights groups hope will help make the island become the first place in Asia to legalise gay marriage.

11 August 2012

Obama in new push for women's votes US President Barack Obama aggravated a culture war battle over contraception as he wooed women voters Wednesday, warning that Mitt Romney's Republicans would turn back the clock to the 1950s.

10 August 2012

Marilyn Monroe's blonde bombshell smolders on She was the prototype blonde bombshell and 50 years after her sudden death, the smoke from Marilyn Monroe's one-woman sexual revolution has yet to clear.

02 August 2012

Pussy Riot becomes cause celebre in Putin's Russia In February, five women walked silently into Moscow's Church of Christ the Saviour before clambering over railings, pulling on balaclavas and yelling out a protest song against Vladimir Putin.

28 July 2012

Egypt all-veiled TV aims to cover women's needs A satellite channel run and hosted by fully-veiled presenters aims to break down the barriers for women in niqab who until the revolution were shunned by Egypt's lucrative television industry.

27 July 2012

Olympics: North Korea flag blunder mars day one London's Olympics got off to an embarrassing start Wednesday when North Korea's women footballers refused to play after a mix-up over their national flag, in one of a series of blunders.

26 July 2012

Olympics kick off but flag error sparks protest Britain's women footballers kicked off the 2012 Olympics on Wednesday, two days before the opening ceremony, but controversy erupted later over a mistake with the North Korean flag.

26 July 2012

China's 'unwanted' single women feel the pressure Xu, a pretty woman in her 30s, warily walked into a Beijing singles club in a bid to shed her status as one of China's "Unwanted".

25 July 2012

Sally Ride, first US woman in space dead at 61 Sally Ride, the first American woman to journey into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

24 July 2012

Australian woman wins key thalidomide settlement An Australian woman born without arms and legs after her mother took thalidomide during pregnancy on Wednesday won a landmark multi-million dollar settlement in her class action against drug firms.

18 July 2012

Google's first female engineer jumps to Yahoo! helm Sullivan expected 37-year-old Mayer to put her proven approach to work as the new chief officer at faded Internet pioneer Yahoo!.

17 July 2012

Olympics: Tajik 'million dollar baby' punches way to London Tajikistan is for the first time sending a female boxer to the London Olympics who is on a mission not only to win but to smash gender stereotypes in the religiously conservative ex-Soviet state.

17 July 2012

Saudi women in 'breakthrough' Olympics Saudi Arabia's decision to allow two female athletes to compete at the Olympic Games overturns a decades-old taboo imposed by the conservative Muslim monarchy which still bars women from sports at home.

13 July 2012

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