The fertile northern region of Uganda was known for many years as one of the granaries of the country, consistently producing surpluses for local and international food markets. But two decades of civil conflict between the Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have left the Acholi and Lango sub-regions destitute.

ISLAMABAD: A two-day regional conference on gender and policing began on Tuesday at the Islamabad National Library. It was organised by Rozan, a non-governmental organization, in collaboration with the Ministry of Human rights and the Islamabad Police.

Steps should be taken to explore opportunities making police more responsible and responsive towards gender-based violence, said experts in inaugural session of a regional conference organised by Rozan in collaboration with Ministry for Human Rights and Islamabad police the other day.

The moot was titled ‘21st Century and policing in South Asia, Response towards Gender Based Violence: Challenges and Prospects'.

I wait for her on Wednesdays. She comes in the afternoon and spends about two hours ironing my shirts, my grandmother's dresses, and the bed sheets. I hand her a bucket of ice along with her money. They do not have a fridge and in the scorching heat of Sudan, cold water should not be a luxury. Her name is Fatima. She is a displaced woman from Darfur.

2010 marks the 10th anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution (SCR) 1325 on women, peace and security. As part of the commemoration of the SCR 1325, a High level Consultation was held in Geneva, Switzerland from September 15 – 16, 2010. Among the participants of the meeting was Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, World YWCA General Secretary.

Two former Catholic nuns will lead a 15-woman peace corps that will monitor a ceasefire between government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

“I believe that we can surmount any problem through organization and coalition work," one of the ex-nuns, Adel Nayal, said in an article posted on the Union of Catholic Asian News website.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, 29 September 2010 – It is hard to think of a place where children are more at risk than Somalia.

In the last week of September, the As-Sahab Foundation, which disseminates al-Qaeda messages and propaganda, released a video clip showing a group of militants launching mortar attacks on Pakistani army sites.

The attacks and the clip were attributed to Aafia Siddiqui.

At least 10 women have died in the district of Afgooye in the region of the Lower Shabelle of Somalia due to labour complications, Shabelle.net has reported.

Three of them were internally displaced persons running away from heavy clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces in the capital Mogadishu.

Neither the commissioner for human rights nor the police in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya have received any reports about attacks on women not wearing headscarves, a spokesman for the commissioner's office said.