In her lifetime, approximately one in three women around the world will suffer violence simply because she is a woman. Sex trafficking, rape during times of war, and domestic violence are destructive forces not just for women, but for entire communities. This cannot continue.

The United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) is pleased to announce the launching of a three-week virtual dialogue “Reintegrating Female Ex-Combatants: Good practices and lessons learned in the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of women and girls” to strengthen the analysis and replication of good practices and to foster the dynamic exchange of experiences an

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom asks you to re-define security.

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CWGL-Center for Women's Global Leadership-is pleased to announce the theme for the upcoming 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign (2010). The following examples of issues that the campaign can address are central to the work of many IANSA women.

These include:

More than 13,000 police officers from around the world are serving at UN peacekeeping and political missions. But less than 10 per cent of them are women. The UN is working to increase the number of women police officers in the field. As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon points out, these professionals bring a special dimension to their service and are vital to the organization's goal of maintaining peace and security.

WITNESS recently made a decision to focus a concentrated level of support to networks of human rights defenders working to challenge gender-based violence that occurs during and after armed conflict and under political repression (for more detail on this, see our previous blog post on the new network campaign strategy).

Why?

The Saharawi Women would like to express their disagreement and their concern on the recent UN Security Council´s resolution on Western Sahara aproved late this friday, April 30th 2010.

In a ground breaking interview, Monterey Institute of International Studies MA graduate, U.S. born Ukrainian, Maria Lewytzkyj, talks with U.S.

Occasion: Global Open Day for Women and Peace, Khartoum, Sudan, 10 June 2010

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