UN Women Report- Progress of the World's Women 2011 - Media Review

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Most countries still do not explicitly criminalize rape within marriage, according to a sweeping United Nations report of global women's rights published Wednesday.


The United Nations' newest agency -- UN Women -- takes an ambitious and sometimes startling look at gender equality and women's rights around the world with its first-ever report.


A report by a new UN agency on gender equality has called on member-states to make more efforts to ensure that women's legal entitlements are not on paper only, but get translated into equality and justice.


In rich and poor countries alike, the infrastructure of justice is failing women, says a UN Women report. Legal reform is only a start, the report argues - laws must be implemented to translate into true equality.


A Pakistani girl walks to her house in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad on July 6, 2011.


The catalyst for empowering women and ensuring their rights is a gender-sensitive judicial system. I


Millions of women worldwide continue to experience injustice, violence and inequality in their homes, the workplace and public life...


A UN prison officer from Nigeria in the Juba prison in Southern Sudan.


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