February 08, 2012 (IPS)
The recommendations give specific attention to women, who continue to be under represented in politics and other positions of power. These include a mandatory 30 percent representation of women in political office, a review of Sierra Leone's 1991 constitution, and the creation of an autonomous "Women's Commission" in government.
February 08, 2012 (CNN)
We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh's 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many as 400,000 women were raped. Begum had been tied to a banana tree and repeatedly gang raped and burned with cigarettes for months until she was shot and left for dead in a pile of women. She didn't die, though, and was able to return home, ravaged and five months pregnant. When she got home she was branded a "slut."
February 08, 2012 (Women Under Siege)
In January 2011, The Economist published the number of women raped in six conflicts, including an estimate of 500,000 women raped in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Many readers may have taken these statistics at face value. In fact, however, estimates of rape in Rwanda range from 250,000 to 500,000 and are based on the number of reported pregnancies from rape, which underestimates prevalence.
February 08, 2012 (The Atlantic)
It doesn't matter where you look; sexualized violence is intrinsic to conflict. Qaddafi's soldiers committed rape in the last days of Libya's regime. The Egyptian military has been sexually violating female journalists and protesters in that revolution. Across the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of thousands of women are suffering the fallout of the sexualized violence that has torn apart their bodies, their families, and their communities.
February 07, 2012 (N-Peace Network)
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 06, 2012 (Trust Law)
With democracy protests still sweeping the Arab world and the global financial crisis continuing to bite, the push for women's economic empowerment and political participation is paramount, the head of the U.N. women's agency Michelle Bachelet says.
February 05, 2012 (U.S. Department of State)
Secretary Clinton addresses the US National Action Plan- and notes that "there are not enough women at the table, not enough women's voices being heard"- at the Prinz Carl Palais in Munich, Germany.
February 03, 2012 (TrustLaw)
With democracy protests still sweeping the Arab world and the global financial crisis continuing to bite, the push for women's economic empowerment and political participation is paramount, the head of the U.N. women's agency Michelle Bachelet says.
February 03, 2012 (Minority Voices Newsroom)
Ann Blomberg, MRG's Representative at the UN in Geneva, spoke at the recent session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues, drawing on the issue of meaningful participation of minority women in post-conflict peace-building processes.
February 02, 2012 (European Parliament News)
EU support in peace processes should be made conditional on women participating in negotiations. That is one of the conclusions of a report on women's situation in war by Romanian Liberal Norica Nicolai. The report proposes several measures to help reinforce the position of women in war-torn countries and to reduce sexual violence against them. The report will be voted on Thursday.
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