Durga´s tale

Nepal has always inspired travellers and writers in search of adventure and spirituality.

But for the Nepalese, the country's recent history carries more pain than romanticism. Durga Devi Sharma would agree.

Her house is a shrine to the Hindu deities which she believes saved her life 10 years ago.

As the Arab Spring is reshaping social and political structures across the Middle East region, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist from Yemen has said that women will acquire more influence in political and social landscapes in return for their great efforts in bringing down the authoritarian regimes.

It is more dangerous to be a civilian woman than a soldier in many conflict zones today.

That was the harrowing truth exposed by former UN Force Commander Major General Patrick Cammaert at the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women held recently at the UN in New York.

In conflict situations today, UN Women estimates that 90 per cent of casualties are civilians. The majority are women and children.

On March 14 at the White House, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby announced a joint initiative to provide $4.65 million in small grants to grassroots organizations to address gender-based violence (GBV) issues.

Today, Trial Chamber I issued the first ever trial judgement of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga). This is the first time a Trial Chamber of the ICC has issued a judgement on the guilt or innocence of the accused.

International Women's Day was celebrated on March 8. Many will argue that every day is women's day, especially in a country like Jamaica, where women make up at least 70 percent of university graduates and occupy many middle and top-level jobs.

Arbitrary arrests. Administrative detention. Abductions. Enforced disappearances. Torture. Rape. Beatings. Interrogation centers. Detention camps. Secret prisons. Unprovoked attacks on peaceful protesters. No right of free movement. Censorship of Information. Discrimination. Intimidation. Humiliation. Military-enforced curfew. Property destruction. Mass graves. Gang rapes. Ethnic cleansing. Occupation.

The First Lady of the Republic, Ms Sophia Martelly, officially opened yesterday Tuesday, the National Forum on the Issues of Haitian women, which takes place from March 6-8, 2012, at the Historical Park Cof the Sugar cane around the theme "the Haitian woman at a time of national reconstruction"

A Pakistani military tribunal has convicted two United Nations peacekeepers for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy.

U.N. spokeswoman Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg said judges from a Pakistani military tribunal came to Haiti to hold the trial that resulted in the conviction last week of the peacekeepers from pakistan. They were found guilty in the rape of the boy in the northern city of Gonaives on January 20.

A Pakistani military tribunal has convicted two United Nations peacekeepers for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy.

U.N. spokeswoman Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg said judges from a Pakistani military tribunal came to Haiti to hold the trial that resulted in the conviction last week of the peacekeepers from pakistan. They were found guilty in the rape of the boy in the northern city of Gonaives on January 20.