On Tuesday July, 15, 2014, two of the United Nations System Agencies, the Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) and the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) in collaboration with the Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Gender and Development (MOGD)-SGBV Joint Program launched a new campaignin Monrovia named: "Shining the Light on ending violence against women" and empowering them to remain free from HIV.

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Women and children, particularly from Afro-Colombian and indigenous groups, have borne the brunt of Colombia's 50-year war and make up the majority of those displaced by the fighting between warring factions.

As Afghan women await the results of the second round of presidential elections which took place over the weekend, they are watching to see that the rights they have won and the advances they have made in the last decade are not compromised.

Millions of Afghans have cast their votes in a presidential run-off to elect a successor to Hamid Karzai, who has been in office since 2001.

Luanda — The Action Plan for the Implementation of the National Policy for Gender Equality and Equity (PNIEG) of the Ministry of Family and Women Promotion (Minfamu), approved in 2013, will promote greater gender equality in all sectors of the society.

A three-day training workshop on the monitoring and evaluation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 in West Africa, is underway in Accra.

The workshop, organized jointly by the Women, Peace and Security Institute (WPSI), and the West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP), is being attended by 25 participants from Gender and Social Protection Ministries in 13 countries in the West Africa Sub-Region.

Lasting peace in Northern Ireland will not be achieved if women are not fully involved in the prolonged task of post-conflict reconstruction. The importance of women's full and equal participation has been described elsewhere. This article provides an insight into one of the attempts being made to listen to and put forward the voices of women today.

The Permanent Ambassador of Switzerland to the UN, Olivier Zehnder, said on Monday in New York, that newly produced ammunition was circulating in conflict countries in Africa and the Middle East.

He said most of the arms originated from facilities in China and Sudan.

Female genital mutilation, the excision of the clitoris practised widely in African and many Muslim countries, is a means for men to maintain control of women and must be eradicated, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday.