Forty police officers in Fiji have completed a workshop on human rights and gender.

The week-long workshop run by the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre is the fourth in a series of five.

The centre's training co-ordinator, Shamima Ali, says it's already making a positive difference in the community.

The wages of war, and of natural disasters, are obvious. We see pictures, and hear stories, of battlefield injuries, people swept away by floods, and the loss of property, homes, and lives.

However, time and time again, in periods of conflict and disaster, the most unspeakable cruelties are inflicted on the bodies of women and children. Violence against women is an ongoing cycle and threat which must be eliminated.

RWANDA, EASTERN AFRICA: To curb continuing cases of rape violence in Rwanda's refugee camps, the government of Rwanda along with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is now establishing what has been termed the new ‘one-stop' centers that will bring both police security and health care staff together in one place together to work in the prevention of and medical response to sexual violence.

Last week Cabinet approved the Gender Commission Bill which is likely to be tabled in Parliament next month.

By Moses Mugugunyeki

The radical changes in the Arab world mean women's rights groups face the major challenge of campaigning for both equality before the law and political democratisation simultaneously. The Cairo-based non-government organisation Karama has created a platform on which the region's activists can engage in debate.

Sri Lanka says the country has taken concrete steps to address the issue of violence against women, in line with its zero tolerance policy on gender based violence.

A decree issued Wednesday in Libya would recognize rape committed during that country's revolution as a war crime and pay rape survivors reparations, according to two sources who have worked closely with the Libyan government in developing the policy.

We awoke one morning in Kabul to the sound of not-too-distant explosions, marking the start to the fighting season. But bombs were not the foremost takeaway from our Mother's Day trip to Afghanistan -- the women fighting to stop the bombs left a more lasting impression.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 June) –The lead convener in the Global Campaign on Women, Peace and Security dubbed “#Women Seriously” and launched in London on June 12 is a Mindanawon: Irene Santiago of the Mindanao Commission on Women (MCW), who conceived the idea for the campaign.

The Global Summit To End Sexual Violence in Conflict is underway in London. It is an extraordinary manifestation of UK soft power, the influence of global social movements, celebrity diplomacy and digital activism.