It was aimed at strategising and building the capacity of women for effective participation in decision making in the local governance system.

It was on the theme: Strategising for effective participation of women in decision making:”The role of civil society.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) - On Tuesday, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said he would be supporting the drafting of laws to protect the identity of victims of rape in Haiti. Currently in Haiti, no laws are in place to compel law enforcement to keep undisclosed the identity of persons who bring complaints of sexual violence.

An international human rights group is urging Yemen to ensure that its new constitution has adequate protections for women.

Human Rights Watch addressed Yemen's National Dialogue in its Tuesday statement. The conference brings together political and religious leaders and other representatives to decide on the country's political system before writing a constitution.

As always, another election was upon us; all eyes were on who voted for or against the 2002 Iraq War Resolution. As a consequence, or maybe out of sheer curiosity, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in attendance asked the delegation what members of Congress should tell American voters about the Iraq War.

Preyed on by armed men at beauty pageants and at school gates and then raped. Forced into sex slavery. Gang-raped as a punishment.

Colombian academic Maria Emma Wills has spent years collecting such testimonies from women and girls across the country in an effort to document the impact of sexual violence and other war crimes on civilians carried out by warring factions during the country's 50-year-old war.

The Secretariat-General of the Supreme Council for Women (SCW) took part in a training project on raising awareness on women's political participation, organised by the Arab Women Organisation (AWO) in Abu Dhabi from August 31 to September 4, 2013.

In the context of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and of the genocide in Rwanda, reports of sexual violence appeared regularly in the global media.

With parliamentary elections due in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region later this month, female politicians are hoping to have more women in the regional legislature, despite what they say is an uneven political arena that is unfair to women.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that there was no cruelty bigger than depriving women from their right to vote.

The apex court issued notices to respondents in an appeal against the Peshawar High Court's suo moto notice regarding barring women from casting votes during the by-elections in NA-5, Nowshera.

Thirteen years after the U.N. Security Council adopted its first resolution on women, peace and security, awareness on women empowerment and gender has increased considerably.

But much work remains to be done, according to Mari Skåre, the NATO secretary-general's special representative for women, peace and security.