In honor of International Women's Day, leaders and rights activists around the world have been praising the role of women in toppling dictators in Tunisia and Egypt and in the ongoing protests in Libya.

The Palestinian ministry of prisoners' affairs said that Israel has kidnapped more than 10,000 Palestinian women since 1968, 850 of them during Al-Aqsa intifada, appealing to the international community and women's rights groups to pay attention to the issue of Palestinian female prisoners.

Reports indicate that nearly one third of women serving in the US military have been raped, with over two thirds having been otherwise sexually assaulted.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers have killed 1337 Palestinian children since the Aqsa intifada in late September 2000 until late 2010, the Ahrar center's research and media unit said in a documentary report.

A survey of the chat room of Worldwide Islamic Network of Women (WINOW) “Gap between generations in the communities”

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for designing a roadmap on role of women in salvation of the mankind.

A report says that "Israeli" soldiers have been accused of sexually and physically abusing Palestinian children detained by the military.