The UNFPA's 2010 State of World Population report, released today, focuses on the effect of conflict and protracted humanitarian emergencies on women and girls, and shows why the development community should be talking, and talking seriously, about conflict.

Press article by the Head of the European Commission Representation in Cyprus Androulla Kaminara published in "Haravgi" newspaper on October 12, 2010.

Well-armed criminal gangs in western Côte d'Ivoire subject local residents to a relentless stream of abuses, including assault, robbery, and sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

THE African Union has declared 2010 the Year of Peace and Security in Africa and will soon launch the African Decade of Women. What better opportunity to act on these pledges than at the 15th African Union Summit, being held later this month in Kampala, Uganda?

In June 2009, Chilean army captain Andrea Fuentes travelled to the city of Cap-Haïtien, in north Haiti, to serve for six months in her country's contingent in the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti

Ms. JD, a grassroots organization committed to advancing women in the legal profession, is looking beyond the borders of the United States.

What gender-related suggestions are in the legal opinion to be presented on Thursday to the Turkel Committee, whose main points appear for the first time here?

What actually is security? Pot-bellied generals with a big pair of binoculars, missile bases, fully stocked weapons warehouses. These images come to mind upon hearing this question. This is how we are used to thinking about this concept.

The 1990s were brutal years for women in war-torn countries.

In Bosnia and Kosovo, they were rounded up and systematically assaulted in rape centres. In Rwanda, they were raped, mutilated and slaughtered. In Liberia and Uganda they were tortured and forced into sexual slavery. And in East Timor they were kidnapped and raped as their husbands were executed.

The Ministry of Health in conjunction with private bodies like Marie Stopes International has invested $6 million for provision of antenatal care.

These services are being accessed through the voucher system, where a voucher is given to a pregnant woman to enable her acquire free antenatal care services from any health centre within her home village.