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Gender equality is guaranteed in the Cambodian Constitution which prohibits all forms of discrimination against women (Article 45). Both men and women should have equal opportunity to exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

When it comes to gender equality, Japan has no shortage of distressing figures. The statistics that are most often used to illustrate the nation's dismal status in this respect are the United Nations Development Program's Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), which gauges equality by tracking women's participation in politics and business.

The human rights of women throughout the Middle East and North Africa are systematically denied by each of the countries in the region, despite the diversity of their political systems. Many governments routinely suppress civil society by restricting freedom of the press, expression, and assembly.

This article shows how despite high literacy rate of females in China, the women face another obstacle; fair wages in the work place and promotion. The discrimination also occurs in the politics, with a very low percentage of the delegates being women. It shows how there is a long way to go until full equity in rights for women. 

Women are mobilizing alongside their male counterparts for greater political freedom like we have seen in Egypt and Tunisia. Women are robustly active in the workforce and serve as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

WASHINGTON -- Taking climate change efforts into his own hands, President Barack Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property.