May 15, 2013 (The Guardian)
Two things, at least, matter more to Ramata Touré than the outcome of the donor conference in Brussels on Wednesday at which representatives of more than 100 countries will be asked for €2bn ($2.6bn) to help bring peace and development to Mali.
April 04, 2013 (CBS News)
As the founder of the Women's Revolution Committee, she's doing what international aid organizations are afraid to do; traveling deep into the hardest-hit parts of war-torn Syria to deliver desperately needed food supplies.
January 12, 2013 (International Rescue Committee)
When a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 – killing more than 200,000 people and leaving some 1.5 million homeless – the International Rescue Committee immediately dispatched our emergency team to help.
July 19, 2012 (IRIN)
Some Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan are opting to marry off their daughters at a young age believing that marital status offers a form of protection and insurance.
June 07, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera)
Kofi Annan, the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria, has admitted that his peace plan is failing and that the country's future will consist of "brutal suppression, massacres, sectarian violence and even all-out civil war" if it continues on its current path.
June 05, 2012 (Global Press Institute )
It's been more than two years since the 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti in January 2010. Women who lost their businesses in the natural disaster say they have not been able to recover their livelihoods. Some have started makeshift jobs, while others remain unemployed or admit to resorting to sex work.
May 30, 2012 (The Guardian)
The UK's stand against sexual violence in conflict is positive, but the importance of gender expertise needs to be recognised.
May 23, 2012 (Safe World For Women)
“We were together in the forest when the fighting forced us to flee,” Mukakarimba said in tears, cradling her little boy to protect him from the lashing rain in this transit camp close to the Congolese border.
She was separated from her husband and a second child in the chaos sparked by the fighting between soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo's army and mutineers – who were until recently rebel soldiers.
April 24, 2012 (The Washington Post)
Every morning in this mountain village in eastern Afghanistan, four dozen girls sneak through a square opening in a mud-baked wall, defying a Taliban edict.
April 04, 2012 (Navy.mil)
Military and civilian experts convened at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) for the inaugural Women, Peace and Security Conference March 29-30, to discuss issues related to the current U.S. National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security.
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