The branch office of the National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW) in Gash-Barka region is making efforts to elevate women's awareness in all aspects of their lives and enable them to improve their lives by gaining work experience, according to the head of the branch, Ms. Saliha Adem.

The Women's Movement spearheaded by the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) recently launched the Uganda Women's Agenda to inform government, political parties, and other stakeholders about the critical issues to be addressed if meaningful development and empowerment of women is to be realised within the next five years.

Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) yesterday picked three women to contest for the position of the Speaker of the National Assembly dropping names of Samuel Sitta and Andrew Chenge who were seen as top contenders.

In June 2000, the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) was launched through the efforts of its co-founders, Joana Foster (Ghana), Dr Hilda Tadria (Uganda) and Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (Nigeria). AWDF is the first Africa-wide grant-making foundation and a decade after its launch is recognized as a leading feminist philanthropic institution on the continent.

At an event marking the 10th anniversary of the landmark Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, the man credited with pushing through the resolution was not in a celebratory mood. Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, dubbed “the father of Resolution 1325,” expressed disappointment at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) event about slow progress in achieving women's participation and protection.

Switzerland is taking further steps to implement an international resolution that aims to increase the participation of women in the peace process.

A revised national action plan was discussed at a conference in Bern this week organised by the Swiss foreign ministry. The plan sets out how Switzerland can apply United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, unanimously adopted ten years ago.

Today EULEX marks the tenth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

The Royal Government of Cambodia encourages for having more women participations in national and sub-national institutions, aiming to promote social gender equity.

Women human rights defenders meeting in Banjul as a prelude to the 48th Ordinary session of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) have adopted a declaration which would further their work and press for their protection.

The meeting, which attracted participants across Africa, Asia and Latin America, was held between the 4th and 6th November 2010 at the Kairaba Beach Hotel.

WOMEN's organisations working for peace in the Greater North are concerned that the Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) lacks gender sensitivity.

The PRDP is a Government plan dealing with the reconstruction of the region.

The women say they were not involved in the definition of PRDP, and that the framework does not recognise their leadership role and falls short of addressing their needs and rights.