How would the media react if Michelle Obama, Grace Mugabe, Sarah Brown or Carla Bruni-Sarkozy had been violently gang-raped, asks Marianne Thamm of Media24.
One in four men in South Africa have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study that exposes the country's endemic culture of sexual violence.
Women's rights groups have urged the establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in Zimbabwe as part of bringing to justice people who committed human rights violations - including sexual abuse against women - during the run-up to a second-round presidential vote in June 2008.
A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully and said women were as much to blame as men for increased spousal abuse, a Saudi newspaper reported.
"People have to imbibe with their mother's milk the idea that women have an equal right to participate in politics," Gladys Acosta, UNIFEM head for Latin America and the Caribbean
A three-day review training programme on Gender Planning and Budgeting for departments and agencies under the Ministry of Trade and Industry opened on Tuesday in Accra Ghana, with a call on participants to chart a path to achieve the target of gender mainstreaming in the ministry and the nation at large.
Women in Egypt have started to "challenge their abusers and force their nation to be more vigilant against sexual harassment". In a recent study by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, it was revealed that nearly 97% of Egyptian women do not alert the police.
The 2008 Ibrahim Index of African Governance was recently launched. In an interview, Mary Robinson, a board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation spoke about the correlation between women's rights and good governance.
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