EU support in peace processes should be made conditional on women participating in negotiations. That is one of the conclusions of a report on women's situation in war by Romanian Liberal Norica Nicolai. The report proposes several measures to help reinforce the position of women in war-torn countries and to reduce sexual violence against them. The report will be voted on Thursday.

Cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as well as domestic violence, are increasing in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland, with social workers attributing the trend to hard economic times made worse by recent drought in the region.

With increased pressure for a U.S. and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and potential peace talks with the Taliban, many Afghan women fear their newfound rights could be jeopardized.

In the past, Kenyan women were kept out of standing in the elections or even voting on election day because of violence and huge financial costs.

Members of the Kenyan Constitutional Review Committee had to ensure space existed for women enabling them to participate in the constitutional making process, to vote in an election and to stand as a candidate.

The DRC and the plight of its women and girls can seem a world away – even beyond our geographical reach to help. But UK-based organisations are working on various levels to turn the situation around by bringing it to the attention of the international community and supporting indigenous partners in their work on the ground.

There are many barriers to world peace, each of which must be overcome in its own way. One of these obstacles is gender inequality, in which over half the human race is suffering under this oppression.

Women should be included in the ongoing Burma's peace-talk process between the government and ethnic armed groups, a statement by the Karen Women Organization (KWO) said yesterday.

In their recent meeting on the Thai-Burma border, KWO which formed a peace committee said it has decided to send representatives and participate in the Karen peace process.

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Women and girls in societies with fundamental inequalities are the intended and unintended causalities of war. Those caught in the military conflict faced sexual violence and exploitation, torture, forced recruitment, rape, mass rape, and trafficking.

On the 25th of January at 10:00 a.m, EVE Organization invited the women's civil society and female activists to a press conference regarding the exclusion of civil society in the National Constitution Review Commission (NCRC). The mission of the commission is to research, review and develop South Sudanese laws and acts so that they are formed after the needs of the citizens of South Sudan.