BETHLEHEM Palestinian rights groups spoke out Thursday on the role of women in conflict and peace-building.

Gaza-headquartered Palestinian Center for Human Rights said Israeli forces killed three women and injured 35 in 2011 in the West Bank and Gaza, in a statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Friday.

Security Council-"Women and Peace and Security"

Statement by
H.E. Mr. Ron Prosor, Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN

Thank you, Madame President. I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his remarks. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Bachelet for her briefing and her leadership on the pressing issues before us.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the global 16 days of activism on gender violence campaign, and a decade of the annual commemoration in southern Africa.

Each year during the 16 days we stop and ponder achievements and accomplishments and assess how much further we still have to go.

Three countries in South America's Andean region, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, have a great deal to teach and share with those meeting in Busan, South Korean this week to discuss, among other things, how to make sure that development aid incorporates a gender focus in order to be effective.

Master Andrew Adansi Bonnah, the 11-year-old Ghanaian schoolboy who recently launched a global campaign to raise $13 million for victims of famine in Somalia, has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for Girl Soldier Eradication in Africa.

The international community's efforts to increase the number of rape convictions in Democratic Republic of Congo have created unfair trials and led to growing numbers of false convictions, according to a new documentary.

As a young girl Garmar Murphy was forced into a child soldier's life, serving as a sexual plaything for Liberian rebels between battles -- a tragic norm in the country's savage conflict. She was 13 years old, and rape was not criminalised.

Nahid Hoseini and Golaleh Kamangar, two exiled Kurdish women fighting for their homeland.

Incidences of violence against women are not isolated or sporadic, but a daily occurrence in Asian countries.

Eleven of the 21 people who are applying to register the National League for Democracy (NLD) party with the Burmese Election Commission are women representing all states and regions except Karenni State.

NLD founder Aung San Suu Kyi will seek a seat in the Burmese Parliament after the party is legally registered. Photo: Mizzima