Women are Marginalized and Violated by Terror. [NewsBlaze, CA] Women are facing threats from terrorism. The terrorists are a threat to the innocent women. There are a number of kinds of terrorist violence where women are victims. Terrorists’ actions have increasingly turned anti-women. Thousands of women have been killed in recent years, and thousands more have been kidnapped for ransom. Small girls, some as young as thirteen or fourteen, have been recruited into the irregular forces - guerrillas and paramilitaries - that play a primary role in the terrorist war. Terrorists routinely recruit women and girls for combat and they are often forced to become fighters. Many girls are abducted and more than a half of the armed groups are under 12. Small arms did enormous damage to Innocent women beyond death. Women also account for the largest number of civilian casualties in war. Thousands of women have died and many more have been injured or left homeless. War has cost over a million women's lives.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. [Reuters AlertNet, UK] The 25th of November is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and marks the opening day of a worldwide campaign of 16 Days of Action against Gender Violence that seeks to raise awareness about gender-based violence. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the term 'gender-based violence' (GBV) is used to distinguish violence that targets individuals or groups of individuals on the basis of their gender, from other forms of violence. GBV includes violent acts such as rape, torture, mutilation, sexual slavery, forced impregnation and murder. Violence against women continues in countries throughout the world as a pervasive violation of women's human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality. As highlighted in the October Report by the UN Secretary General on Violence Against Women, the high incidence of GBV in conflict zones is particularly alarming, and has been increasingly evidenced and documented in a range of conflict situations including; Afghanistan, Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the Sudan. Within the context of violent conflict sexual violence has been used for many different reasons, including as a form of torture, to inflict injury, to extract information, to degrade, intimidate and destroy communities.

It’s a Woman’s World, Is It? [Daily Times, Pakistan] The International Rescue Committee (IRC) will live up to the spirit of human rights organizations, arranging a series of programs on gender violence. The campaign will end on December 10, when the International Human Rights Day is observed around the world. Cyma Riaz, the IRC communication head, pressed on the need to a campaign against gender biases internationally to achieve the result because, she says, sporadic struggles are hard to be pieced together if one wants to see their impact as a whole. She says about three million women lose their lives to numerous types of violence, which they have to go through “simply because they are women”. Citing international organizations, she claims that 5,000 women are murdered in the name of honor every year in the world. “’Honor killings’ have been reported in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda and the United Kingdom,” she says. “These crimes (honor killings) are sanctioned socially in some countries and legally in the others. Similarly, between 12 to 25% of the women around the world have experienced sexual violence at some time in their lives,” she says.