On the 2nd of July 2013, Interfax News Agency reported the arrest of three women working with the Islamic political party Hizb ut Tahrir in the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan. The three women, all of which are students, are reported to be aged between 18 and 20 years. They have all been accused of distributing "extremist" material and uploading Islamic videos on YouTube.

On Sunday the 7th of July 2013, hundreds of women, including journalists, human rights activists, lawyers, representatives of organisations, and other female opinion-makers will gather at an important women's seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to bring to global media and international attention, the continuing desperate plight of the Rohingya women and children of Burma, and call for an urgent solution to end their suffering.

On the 17th of May 2013, Russian TV, the UK Guardian and other media agencies reported on the publishing of a horrific video showing several boys under the age of ten, beaten with a belt and kicked by two teenage caretakers in a Russian orphanage. The appalling incident happened in the Mazanovsky orphanage in the region of Amur. According to an anonymous member at the orphanage...