"I own her. The dowry I paid for her means she's my property.”

For most of our conversation, 40-year-old Linus Kariuki seemed like a soft-spoken man, a town councillor in the village of Kanjuu, 90 minutes northeast of Nairobi. But when he talked about the controversial proposal to make marital rape a crime in Kenya, he became loud and agitated.

The reform, he insisted, was not in keeping with African tradition.

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, today highlighted progress made and challenge to overcome in Guinea-Bissau in the implementation of the Security Council Resolution 1325 in a ceremony with women leaders and peace activists in the country.

Uzbekistan on Monday issued a plea for international aid to cope with tens of thousands of refugees from Kyrgyzstan, saying it can accept no more people fleeing ethnic bloodshed there.

"We need humanitarian aid from international organisations," the country Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Aripov said, during a visit to a swelling refugee camp near Uzbekistan's border with Kyrgyzstan.

In the wake of increasing cases of domestic violence and sexual offences the Fiji Police Force is organizing a symposium on Elimination of Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence.

The symposium is being organized in conjunction with the Ministry for Women and Social welfare at the end of the month.

The top United Nations envoy to Timor-Leste has underscored the need for dialogue to bring an end to gender-based violence in the fledgling South-East Asian nation.

Yesterday, Ameerah Haq, the Secretary-General's Special Representative, visited Covalima, a district in the country's southwest, where she visited a safe house, home to women who have been targets of domestic or sexual violence.

United Nations India and Bangladesh have taken a lead in sending female police officers to serve in United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world as the world body aims to have 20 per cent women in its police force by 2040.
In 2007, India sent the first contingent of women officers to serve in Liberia and has since then rotated this team thrice.

The United Nations is looking for a "few good women" — more than 2,000 to be exact — to serve as police officers in UN peacekeeping missions around the world.

The Global Open day on Partnerships for Peace in the DRC tagged “Women Perspectives in Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peace building in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)” was held June, 10, in the presence of the SRSG Alan Doss, the DSRSG Sarassoro, and heads of all UN Agencies present in the DRC, under the distinguished patronage of President Joseph Kabila Kabange.

Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian journalist and prominent human rights activist, was arrested on June 10th by Intelligence Ministry Officials at her home in Tehran.

United Nations “Global Open Day for Women and Peace” kicks off 10th anniversary commemorations of UN Security Council resolution 1325