A Year in Review: Women's Rights in 2012
Throughout 2012, structural and institutional forces such as politics, religion, culture and inequality continued to impact women's rights
Malian women raped, stoned, lashed and forced to marry amid intense fighting
Tuareg rebels are main aggressors but Islamists also responsible for atrocities against women, witnesses say
Hundreds mourn at funeral of South Africa gang rape victim
The killing of Anene Booysen, who was mutilated and left to die in a small town in the Western Cape, echoes the gang rape of a student on a New Delhi bus last year
UN denounces "sorcery" crimes in Papua New Guinea
Young woman accused of witchcraft is burnt to death in Papua New Guinea. UN says attacks on people accused of sorcery are rising
Tears, anger as South African town mourns teen rape victim
Like the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi, the incident has stirred rare outrage in a country where many people have become desensitised by some of the world's highest rates of sex crimes