“We do not want to go back on our gains. Whatever we have gained in the past 10-11 years, we do not want to give an inch of it,” said Mahbouba Seraj, founder and director of the Organization for Research in Peace and Solidarity.

“There is no going back, we don't want to do that, so that's why we want the support of the world,” she told AFP during a whirlwind trip to Washington.

Addressing a one-day Stakeholders' Consultative Conference yesterday in Monrovia, Vice President Joseph N. Boakai said that Liberia has done well in the area of women development, but added that there is still room for improvement.

According to him, Liberian women have continued to play crucial roles in the country's search for peace, in the area of agriculture, while playing critical roles in bringing up the children in the home.

Legal Awareness Programme for Human Rights (LAPH) organised the workshop to sensitise journalists to the issue and ways to address it.

The speakers apprised participants of different manifestations of gender-based violence and said women in the district were vulnerable to violence at home, workplace and educational institutions.

Journalists, bloggers and civil activists from Abkhazia and South Ossetia had a rare opportunity to meet their Georgian counterparts at an IWPR event designed to build regional advocacy and reporting networks.

Held in the Armenian capital Yerevan on June 22-25, the workshop was part of an ongoing project called Women Connecting For Peace – The Voice of Change, which IWPR is running in partnership with UN Women.

Women are needed, not only in the home, but also at the negotiating table, to achieve peace. Decisions made without women not only are less likely to include consideration of women and their specific struggles, but also such decisions willfully perpetuate inequality, uneven power relations, and minimize the both the suffering and potential contribution of women.

I woke up early that Sunday morning last May to attend the Nakba Day at Kass-Kass Park, just outside of Shatila Palestinian refugee Camp in Beirut. I made a promise to Doha Abou Jamous—a young Palestinian resident of the Shatila Camp who I interviewed earlier in the week—that I would attend the festival to see her perform her dance recital.

Thirty-two American protestors, majority of them are women, joined Imran Khan's peace march against the drone attacks.

Campaigners from the anti-war group 'Code Pink', visited Pakistan to make contact with people affected by the drone strikes and draw the attention of the American public to the impact of attacks.

Zainab Salbi, the founder of the nonprofit humanitarian organization Women for Women International and author of “The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope,” criticized the United States for contributing to Iraqi women's diminishing social position in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq in a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Thursday.

Culture is not always worth preserving.

This sentiment was echoed throughout the panels and workshops at “Breaking Barriers: What it will take to achieve security, justice and peace,” a recent conference at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego.

The Honour Based Violence Awareness Network says today the UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund statistics estimates that 5,000 “so-called honour” killings are committed around the world every year. Across the Western world there are rising levels of ‘honour' violence.