Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iranian women have played positive roles not only in households but in various fabrics of society.

Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff said that present home situation requires many women's taking part in the social labor, calling for getting rid of the tendency of giving priority to men in work.

She clarified her stand to maintain the government policy for steadily providing women with jobs.

The minister of Science, Technology and Vocational Training of Zambia expressed the government stand not to allow the discrimination against women in various fields of socio-economic life.

Philippines President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino signed new law on the protection of women workers.

The Bangladeshi parliament adopted a bill on protecting women and children from family violence.

The country shaped a new policy to enhance the position of women. The Cameroon government plans to develop public health to reduce the death rate of women in child-bed and children 75 percent by 2015 while the Nigerian government takes steps to increase the role of maternity nurses in the rural areas.

The cancer check-up took place in Brazil with main emphasis on the early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and uterine cancer.

A university for women was established in Riyadh for the first time in Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, the ALBA member states set up the ministerial-level committee for ensuring the sex equality and make joint efforts for women's presence in the building of a new society.