Sign the petition to urge the U.N. Security Council to appoint a Special Representative now who can help hold government forces and armed groups accountable for stopping repeated gender-based violence and assist survivors of rape and assault.

Assaults on women and young girls, especially domestic violence, acid attacks, honor killings, FGM and forced marriage that have become a growing problem in some Muslim countries, are barbaric, inhumane and completely contrary to Islamic teachings.

Sharia law deems a woman unequal and subordinate to her husband. Under Sharia, women's testimony is worth half that of men's, women have limited rights to divorce and child custody and women can be executed for apostasy or stoned to death for adultery.

Schools torched. Classrooms hit with poison gas. Acid thrown in their faces. Girls risk life and limb to learn even as attacks by insurgents mount. You can help: The Afghan Women Empowerment Act would fund educational opportunities and keep them safe.

AR activists Stopped at UK International airports

The government of this country has armed and sanctioned a brutal gang which imposes its authority whenever it feels like it, whether given the slightest excuse or not

Chinese police have ringed Tiananmen Square, to prevent people marking the 20th anniversary of the massacre. The clampdown came as China angrily rejected calls for a review of the 1989 crackdown in which hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed...

Qaeda in Mali Edwin Dyer, a British hostage, has been executed by al-Qaeda in West Africa in an "appalling and barbaric act of terrorism" after the government refused to release the radical preacher Abu Qatada.

Building on the conference's success, our goal now is to make sure every member of Congress becomes a supporter of the child marriage law. Please, send a quick note to your elected officials encouraging them to stand up for girls' rights. That action...

The future weapon of mass destruction we should fear the most is not a nuke, but rather a genetically engineered plague that no one has ever seen before, and of which there is no immunity or defense against.