Egypt--protest--mubarak

It is no longer acceptable to live in a world where young girls are taken out of school and forced into early marriage, where women’s employment opportunities are limited, and where the threat of gender-based violence is a daily reality — at home, in the street, at school and at work. -Michele Bachelet, Head of UN Women…

'What is glimpsed at such times is a sense of what democracy could be: a notion of radical self-rule.'…

Maria Golia on a wily strategist who is sowing division as his palace crumbles – and the protesters holding firm against his will.…