2 Cebu City girls rescued from working as GRO in Pampanga bar
By Erika Sauler
Four girls, including a minor, were rescued by the National Bureau of Investigation from being forced to work as guest relations officer in a bar in Pampanga.

Four girls, including a minor, were rescued by the National Bureau of Investigation from being forced to work as guest relations officer in a bar in Pampanga.

A woman gave birth inside one of the trains of the Light Rail Transit Authority Wednesday morning, its spokesman said.

The women and the youth are taking over the Senate.

Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal’s Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women’s sports are severely restricted, tourism officials said Sunday.
It was heartening to observe young females involved with Vote Good. Females did not get the right to vote or be elected automatically; they had to fight for it.

The first female general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines is up for a new challenge after choosing a different battlefield – politics.
Five health club personnel were arrested in a recent raid conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation on an alleged prostitution den in Quezon City.
A beauty pageant contestant has filed rape charges in the Department of Justice (DOJ) against the mayor and vice mayor of Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija.

Jerusalem police on Friday arrested five ultra-Orthodox Jewish men trying to disrupt landmark prayers by female Jewish activists at the Western Wall plaza in the Holy City.

Saudi Arabia has given girls at private schools the right to play sport, the education ministry said Sunday, in a step aimed at easing restrictions on women in the ultra-conservative kingdom.

Women attending the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting in New Delhi have been advised to avoid wearing short skirts since they could lead to sexual harassment, according to a website notice Thursday.

A four-year-old Indian girl has died in hospital nearly two weeks after she was raped and found unconscious at a farm, hospital staff and reports said on Tuesday.
Over 15,000 cases of domestic violence were recorded by the Women and Children Protection Center of the Philippine National Police in 2011, according to data from the Department of Social Welfare and Development. This figure was around 60 percent higher than the recorded 9,485 cases in 2010. Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research