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Picture: Launch of WILPF Democratic Republic of Congo, October 2011
WILPF sections around the world are taking part in the annual 16 Days Campaign this month under the 2011 Campaign theme is “From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World: Let's Challenge Militarism and End Violence Against Women!”.
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The PeaceWomen Project promotes the role of women in preventing conflict, and the equal and full participation of women in all efforts to create and maintain international peace and security. PeaceWomen monitors the UN Security Council, the UN system, and provides a hub of information sharing on women, peace and security. We are a project of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the oldest womens peace movement in the world.
PeaceWomen advances our mission by monitoring and advocating for the rapid and full implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security and related women, peace and security commitments - including Security Council Resolutions 1325 (2000) and the subsequent resolutions.
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February 07, 2012
The first N-Peace Training of the Trainers (ToT) Programme kicked off today with twenty-two women peace builders from Nepal, Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, taking part in day one of the eight day workshop (3-10 February) implemented by the N-Peace facilitator, UNDP, with the network training partner, the Institute for Inclusive Security, and the support of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
February 07, 2012
“I have heard and read much about Khojaly tragedy. I offer my condolences to the Azerbaijani people over this tragedy. All the tragedies committed in the Caucasus are common tragedy of the region. Women suffered much in these tragedies,”
February 07, 2012
With politicians in the US and Afghanistan wrangling over who will take the lead in peace talks with the Taliban, women are increasingly concerned that they will be betrayed by the international community that once claimed to be acting in their interests, says Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan Researcher for Amnesty International.
February 07, 2012
As President Obama hailed the “extraordinary achievement” of U.S. troops withdrawing from Iraq in December, continuing protests against government repression and abysmal basic services undermined the narrative of a successful democratic transition. Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has for months helped many Iraqis express their anger.
February 07, 2012
Now 66, Shaykh was born in a conservative and strict Shia family in Lebanon and pursued her higher education in Cairo in the 1960s. She returned to Lebanon to work for a newspaper but left her country when the civil war broke out. While she also spent time in Saudi Arabia, Shaykh now lives in London and writes from there about her distant homeland.
February 06, 2012
The past few months have seen a growth of public discord in Israel, but this time, the issue at hand has nothing to do with territory or terrorism. Instead, there has been a heated clash between secular and ultra-Orthodox Israelis over the treatment of women within the country.
February 06, 2012
In El Salvador in 1930, the first female president in all of Latin America was elected. Her name was Prudencia Ayala and she led the way in history to proclaim the equality of rights. Twenty years after that declaration, the government, in 1950, granted full equality for both sexes in El Salvador.
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