ARGENTINA

Calculations

Argentina's military expenditures are 8% of its GDP.

While ranking 53rd amongst highest national military budgets, with this money, the government could

• Cover the costs of ½ year of public health
• Or cover those who currently pay out-of-pocket for private health care for three years.

What actually is security? Pot-bellied generals with a big pair of binoculars, missile bases, fully stocked weapons warehouses. These images come to mind upon hearing this question. This is how we are used to thinking about this concept.

Sixteen employees of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior became the first females to complete a formal MoI Basic Human Rights course here, Oct. 7.

The training, sponsored by the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights' National Institute for Human Rights, is based upon international law and the Iraqi constitution. Topics included basic principles of human rights, women and children's rights, and the treatment of detainees and their rights.

Dear Editor,

The compelling film brings you the voices of rape survivors, frontline health workers, emerging women activists, Liberia's Chief Prosecutor for sexual assault crimes, the Minister of Justice, and the Gender Ministry's GBV Unit.

A Women for Women International report being released on international Stop Violence Against Women Day (25 November) finds 'violence against women is the single biggest threat to peace' and countries are falling strikingly short on UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and UN (SCR) 1325 development and security goals.

Legal reforms are necessary to fight against gender-based violence but they must be accompanied by wider social and political transformations, activists said Tuesday.

When mainstream media failed to cover a week of events at the United Nations in October marking the 10-year anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which aimed to give women a stronger voice in preventing and ending conflict, one thing became clear: 10 years later, women's contributions to peace remain sidelined.

Organizations from around the world gathered at the Peace Fair, a space for civil society to showcase their work on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women and peace and security and to share strategies and lessons learned on implementing the resolution. Running from October 25th to October 29th 2010, the Peace Fair was held at the UN Church Center in New York City.

Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,

This campaign for the elimination of violence against women is a social, political and civil duty for us all; whatever our posts are, whatever aspect of life we operate in, we should all combat this plague.