The Moremi Initiative has launched the 2014 MILEAD Fellows Leadership Institute to train young women to develop their talents to create a change in their societies. Twenty-eight young women from 26 different African countries, including Sudan, Benin, Gambia, South Africa, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Ghana, are participating in the programme.

Last Sunday, President Paul Kagame met with Rwandan women of all walks of life to celebrate the country's 20th liberation and to reflect on the strides that the Rwandan women have made over the years.

No doubt women, not just the Rwandan women, have proven time and again that they have unique ability to bridge seemingly insurmountable divides.

Prominent women-leaders from the Central-West region of Western province excelled to greater heights in knowledge and understanding of their roles and responsibilities in building and maintaining peace in the province, after attending a time-bound, extremely informative, emotional but fun, hope-filled and commitment-setting peace-building conference early last month.

Conflict Resolution Unit will lead the development of Ireland's Second National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.

To help inform the development of Ireland's Second National Action Plan, Conflict Resolution Unit is issuing an open invitation for submissions to this consultation document.

Somali Ministry of Women and Human Rights in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations Children's Fund opened a three-day training in Mogadishu Sunday (July 6th) on ways to combat gender-based violence (GBV), Somalia's Goobjoog News reported.

More than 50 women will receive capacity building training in responding to GBV, including rape.

As ongoing tensions and what has been called “the politics of hate” rises to a critical point today following the killing deaths of three teenage male Jewish seminary students who bodies were found after they were hitchhiking in the West Bank, the region is reeling military aggression from Gaza, as well as from a ‘retribution' killing of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khaider.

ASMA, 14, was raped at gunpoint. Two soldiers attacked her as she looked for firewood in the forest. "When I want to cry, one put a gun in my mouth while the other raped me. When the first had finished the other took his turn. I thought they were going to kill me."

ISLAMABAD: The government of Denmark has provided a grant of $1 million to support UN Women, the United Nations entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The Danish government wants to promote peace, security and humanitarian actions shaped by women leadership and participation, stated Ambassador of Denmark Jesper Moller Sorensen during a signing ceremony at the UN Women Country Office on Wednesday.

The state government has reinforced its commitment to reducing violence.

The government has signed up to the Second Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022.

On Monday, the President Michel Martelly, accompanied by Me Jean Renel Sanon, the Minister of Justice and Public Security, has proceeded with the installation of the judge Wendelle Coq, unanimously appointed Vice-President of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSPJ), replacing Judge Antoine Norgaisse, whose term has expired.