The Washington Post Opinion: Rape as a weapon of war has increased in eastern Congo since June 2008. In January, military operations were launched in North Kivu with the supposed goal of arresting the rebel leader Laurent Nkunda and neutralizing his National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) troops as well as the FDLR, the former Rwandan Hutu genocidaires.

San Francisco Business Times Article: According to a first of its kind report by the Foundation Center in New York and Women’s Funding Network in San Francisco, giving to women’s causes by private and community foundations is growing faster than philanthropy as a whole, a new study finds.

PhilanTopic Blog: A growing number of philanthropic institutions are realizing that investing in women and girls serves to lift up entire communities -- something that women's funds have known and practiced for thirty years.

The Guardian Commentary:  For nearly 12 years an invisible war has ravaged this beloved, beleaguered country. Over five million dead, hundreds of thousands of women and girls raped and sexually tortured in the most unimaginable ways, 800,000 internally displaced since January 2009 and close to 350,000 forced to flee to neighbouring countries.

C-SPAN Coverage: Sima Samar, Chairman of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and Elanor Smeal, Pres. and Founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation conducted a press conference to discuss human rights conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan.