Two Iraqi woman reunited after twenty years, two wars, death and destruction. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports. Click here to watch video.

Women leaders in the western region have begun discussing the simplified version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations in support of local transitional justice under the Liberia Peace Building Fund. The discussions are a follow-up to previous engagements the Women NGOs Secretariat of Liberia (WONGOSOL) aimed at giving rural women the opportunity to have an input into the TRC final recommendations.

Last year the African Union declared this decade, 2010-2020 as the African Women's Decade.

Between July 30th and August 4th nearly 500 women were raped in and around the village of Luvungi in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a campaign of ongoing terror waged by armed groups who use rape as a weapon of war. To date, armed groups and soldiers from the Congolese armed forces have raped over 200,000 women.

The laptop on which I am typing right now is the cause of great guilt. As much as GAB has posted about the armed conflict and systematic rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and as much as I have personally educated myself on the situation, my choice to spend (a lot of) money on this contraption is incongruent with these good intentions.

Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani today met with a group of women peace activists to discuss issues facing the Kurdish people and society.

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, during its thirty-third session, held from 5 to 22 July 2005, took note of the preparation of a draft of a new Constitution for Iraq.

UNFPA - UNTV: United Nations, New York - With just five years left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations (UN) calls for world leaders to intensify their efforts to improve women's and children's health; and with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's launch of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, head of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Thoraya Obaid and

While MADRE joins with advocates who recognize that all eight of the Millennium Development Goals are directly linked to women's rights issues, MDG 3 is one of the few goals that specifically address the needs of women.

In Aristophone's play Lysistrata, the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been raging for 21 years. Fed up with the violence, Lysistrata and the women of Athens decided to take matters into their own hands. Wives and mistresses barricaded themselves in the Acropolis and refused all sexual favors until the men stopped fighting.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf spoke powerfully Tuesday about the necessity of government reform on behalf of women in the developing world. She noted that most of Liberia's productive farms are managed by women. ""Women are much more conscious and much more dedicated in working the land. The men would rather just play drums."