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The first ever Congress of Indigenous People of the Archipelago of Indonesia in 1999
Dame Carmen Callil, who died in October this year, founded a feminist publisher in 1972
The launch of the first magazine in America owned, run and written by women
Sampat Devi started a women's rights group in India which now has a national following.
The campaign to allow abortion in Great Britain which resulted in a new law in 1967.
In 1993 abortion laws were tightened up in Poland after the fall of Communism
Aina-E-Zan, or Women's Mirror, was launched in 2002 at a time of hope for Afghan women.
In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman Prime Minister
The Empress Dowager Cixi ruled for 47 years until her death in 1908.
Susie Orbach's book led people to rethink body-image from a feminist perspective
The trades union activist and politician who fought for Nigerian independence.
The outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in October 2006
In 2005 an unprecedented protest by Kuwaiti women won a historic change
In 1979, the Islamic Revolution changed Iranian women's lives forever.
In 2004, the Kenyan ecologist became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
On April 10 2000, Angela Merkel became the first woman to lead a German political party.
In 1999 a Turkish woman MP appeared in parliament wearing a headscarf. It caused uproar.
In March 1997 Mother Teresa retired from her charity work in India.
Indian film star Shabana Azmi recalls playing a lesbian in the controversial film, Fire
In 1994 Pakistan opened the country's first all-female police station
In 1992 the Church of England faced its toughest decision since the split from Rome.
In 1993, Marguerite Barankitse came to symbolise hope for peace in Burundi's civil war
The first time a case of sexual harassment came to court in India.
In 1991 Katie Koestner went public with her experience of date rape and divided America.
