Five years after WCI’s Candidate Training series helped double the number of women in Parliament, Malawi’s women leaders hit the campaign trail once again to vy for political office.

The civil conflict in Sri Lanka is once again a top headline in the international media. Several newspapers and media outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and BBC report that the twenty-four hour ultimatum given to the separatist rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers by the government of Sri Lanka earlier this week has expired and intense fighting has spread to the northern part of the island. However it is evident that following this recent wave of violence, more media attention of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka is needed.

The Arhuaco tribe is one of four Tairona indigenous groups that inhabit the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Northwestern Colombia. While the government of Colombia recognizes indigenous territories, the Arhuaco are quickly becoming one of Colombia’s 27 indigenous groups at risk for extinction. WCI’s programs with Arhuaca women in Colombia aim to end this devastating trend.

One women’s health issue of critical concern in Ethiopia is that of obstetric fistula. While the painful, prolonged labor and the likely death of a newborn associated with fistula are traumatic enough, most women who suffer this fate face a new nightmare even after the labor has ended.