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Increased efforts are needed to advance women’s leadership and participation in public life if we are to achieve gender equality, say senior officials of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

The OECD has launched an initiative for International Women’s Day to help governments, parliaments and judiciaries to design gender-sensitive public policies and services and accelerate their efforts to enable equal access for women in public decision making.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein addresses the 37th Session of the Human Rights Council.

A boy walks past severely destroyed houses in a neighborhood in eastern Aleppo, Syria.

A group of Rohingya refugees including women and small children cross into Bangladesh at Palong Khali in Cox’s Bazar district.

Indonesian medical associations should publicly denounce so-called virginity tests obligatory for female applicants to the Indonesian National Armed Forces and National Police, Human Rights Watch said in letters sent on February 20, 2018. Virginity testing is a form of gender-based violence and has been widely discredited, including by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Families of detained migrant workers protesting inadequate Pakistani government protection of Pakistani citizens in Saudi Arabia outside the Lahore Press Club in 2016.

EU Commissioners Vĕra Jourová and Mariya Gabriel, MEPs and 27 MPs from 17 EU national parliaments and Norway will be among the participants in this inter-parliamentary meeting, marking International Women’s Day (IWD).

Three undocumented Indonesian immigrants have taken sanctuary in a New Jersey church to avoid deportation from the United States. The men say they’re afraid to go back to Indonesia because being members of the country’s Christian minority makes them vulnerable to persecution.

A file photo of a 17-year-old girl, ‘Aminata,’ who was forced to live with Boko Haram for two years, sitting in an internally displaced persons camp in north-east Nigeria.