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REUTERS/Jason Reed

New Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf inspects a police honour guard after being sworn in during a ceremony at the Capitol Building in Monrovia January 16, 2006. Johnson-Sirleaf took office as Africa's first elected woman president on Monday, backed by a strong show of U.S. support and vowing to fight graft and rebuild her country after years of war.

AP Photo/Marco Ugarte

UN Special Envoy of the Commission on Human Rights Yakin Erturk speaks during a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico. (February 25, 2005)

ICC-CPI/Wim Van Cappellen

Solemn Undertaking of The Deputy Prosecutor of the ICC (prosecution), Ms. Fatou Bensouda at The Hague. (November 1, 2004)

AP IMAGES/Pavel Rahman

Burmese women protest demanding the release of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday June 19, 2006.ÊSuu Kyi turned 61 on Monday, alone and under house arrest in Yangon, Myanmar, as the military government beefed up security outside her barricaded home.

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REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

The Rafadin Womens Coalition, an Iraqi women's rights advocacy group, holds a news conference in Baghdad August 3, 2005. The conference was called to launch the coalitions campaign for the protection of women's rights in the new Iraqi constitution. The coalition asserted that women's rights in Iraq have been overlooked and women not have the chance to fully participate in the decision making process.

REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish

Female Iraqi police officers hold signs during a protest to demand their pay in the holy city of Najaf on July 31, 2005. The police officers said they had not received their salaries for over a year. The signs in Arabic read "We urge the Jaafari government to take care of women" (L) and "What will the government do with this request from the women who elected you?"

REUTERS/Desmond Boylan

Afghan Fatana Ishaq Galyani (L), founder of the Afghan Women Council (AWC) congratulates Cambodian Somaly Mam (R) as Nigerian Olayinka Koso Thomas looks on after receiving their Prince of Asturias Prize for International Cooperation in Oviedo on October 23, 1998. Seven women from different countries received the prize for their work for human rights.

REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman

Members of the Women's League of Burma shout slogans as they take part in a protest marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Dhaka on November 25, 2005. The members are exiled Myanmar citizens living in Bangladesh.

REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya (scanned from negative)

Women carry their children as they queue to vote in Phola Park squatter camp in this township east of Johannesburg April 28, 1994. South Africa's historic all-race elections entered their third day and final day but ANC President Nelson Mandela slammed poll sabotage and urged voting extension.

REUTERS/Deepa Shrestha

Prominent female parliamentarian Bidhya Devi Bhandari protests in front of the principal secretariat Singha Durbar in Kathmandu, demanding women participation in the committee which will draft the interim constitution of Nepal. June 19, 2006.

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