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Despite the fanfare in New York and around the world surrounding the 10th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, is there anything worth celebrating? In short, the answer is “Yes, but…”

An old friend of mine called saying “you were right.” I was a bit surprised, because my friend had traditional views regarding the connections between gender and security threats. He believed that security is a man's business and a woman has nothing to offer.

I believe security is everybody's business including women and children.

What types of images does the term conjure up for you? Locks and keys, barbed-wire fences, and metal detectors? Men with badges? Three-ounce shampoo bottles in little plastic bags, perhaps?

Male and female Journalists drawn from the print and electronic media on Tuesday 30th November 2010 started a three days training on reporting Gender Based Violence (GBV) at the British Council Hall in Freetown.

The training is organized by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WIMSAL) in partnership with the British Council.

What could be done with the approximate $140 Million spent on military expenditures every year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo….

The cost of a forensic rape exam is $800: you could buy 175,000 rape kits. The evidence gathered with these rape kits, if properly taken care of, could lead to an end of impunity in the DRC.

“Have you ever seen a woman who was properly dressed and they raped that woman anyway?” Oretha T. Lah, a legal advocate and gender trainer, asked a group of about twenty men last month at a community center in Kakata, an hour outside of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.

The men agreed that this had happened, but weren't quite ready to say that how women dress isn't a cause of rape.

CANADA

We have a conservative, cutting government at the moment and we can list a huge number of programs which they've cut or under-funded.

RUSSIA

Russia in 2008 ranks as 5th country in the world with highest military expenditure, with a spending of 58.6 billion dollars, representing an approximate 4% of the world share, a roughly 3.5% of its own GDP and a spending per capita of 413 dollars.