Women's rights activist Vedrana Frašto speaks with AWID about the importance of challenging conventional representations to women's rights struggles in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

By Lejla Medanhodzic and Masum Momaya

It's now widely known that conflict has a disproportionate impact on women and girls. Since the end of the Cold War and a rise in what academic Mark Duffield1 calls “new wars”, conflict has shifted from the battlefield to fronts much closer to home–the city street, the suburban shopping mall, a rural olive grove.

Sevara Karamatullakhodjaeva has witnessed many changes in Uzbekistan during her 81 years, she tells her granddaughter Layli Mutalova.

Manal Omar, a women's rights advocate of Palestinian descent who has worked in Iraq's humanitarian field since the late 1990s, spoke to the NGO Coordination Committee about complex gender issues facing the country after eight years of occupation and conflict. She also describes the purpose behind writing Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity – My Own and What it Means to be a Woman in Chaos.

Today's world abounds in international courts, laws and tribunals – more so than ever before – yet war is becoming more brutal, more transnational, with mounting civilian casualties. What's the solution to the awful paradox?

In Cambodian society, which was matriarchal from its foundation, the question of why so few women hold top positions in the government, NGO community and private sector seems to escape all who attempt an answer.

It is responsibility of the NGOs and political institutions to encourage the projects who want to come to Kashmir and provide psychological support and consultation to women

When George W. Bush left the White House, the rest of the world breathed a sigh of relief. The National Security Doctrine of unilateral attacks, the invasion of Iraq under the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction, and the abandonment of multilateral forums had opened up a new phase of U.S. aggression. Despite the focus on the Middle East, the increased threat of U.S.

Sunita Viswanath, founder of Women for Afghan Women, will be speaking at 6 p.m. on Feb. 3 in Jubilee Hall to discuss the current status of women in Afghanistan.

WAW serves as an outreach program and shelter for Afghan women to teach them vital life skills and to educate them about their rights.

Speech delivered by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, at the opening of the First Regular Session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), 24 January 2011.

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