These set of videos produced by different organizations expose, document, and strengthen the call for an end to violence against women and girls.

We are facing a “fierce new world”, with massive political and economic instability, says feminist activist Gita Sen speaking at a panel at the CSW meeting in New York. This instability, and the connections between militarization, economic crisis, food insecurity, violence, climate change and a rollback on sexual rights, hits women the hardest.

As UN Member States and women's rights advocates and organizations from all over the world gather in New York for this event, AWID will be bringing Beijing + 15 to you, wherever you are in the world.

2010 marks the 15th anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women. Women's movements around the world will gather at the NGO Global Women’s Forum 27-28 February in New York prior to the UN event to consider implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

In Port-au-Prince, the UN has set up 16 centers aimed exclusively at distributing food to women. Men had been pushing women out of food lines and stealing relief supplies from women leaving the distribution areas.

Women's rights and development activists working in Haiti say that greater attention must be paid to the immediate needs of women and girls, as well as their role in the long-term reconstruction of the devastated country.

Human rights campaigners who have been struggling for years to eliminate female genital mutilation in West Africa got a boost last week as news emerged that a group of Muslim clerics and scholars in Mauritania had declared a fatwa, or religious decree, against the practice.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is in danger of being politically undermined by a slew of reservations by 22 countries seeking exemptions from some of the convention’s legal obligations.

The solidarity camp is named after Myriam Merlet, a feminist activist who was killed in the earthquake last week. As an outspoken activist, Merlet helped draw international attention to the use of rape as a political weapon.

Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan, founders of three of the country's most important advocacy organizations working on behalf of women and girls, are confirmed dead, victims of last week's earthquake.