Participation

The West Africa Network for Peace-building (WANEP-Gambia) and Pro-Hope International in collaboration with FAWEGAM recently conducted a three-day capacity building training for 30 women from the West Coast Region, North Bank Region, Lower River Region, Central River and Upper River Regions respectively in Jarra Soma, LRR.

To increase the pool of experts that can be rapidly deployed to participate in investigations into gender-based crimes during conflict, UN Women, Justice Rapid Response (JRR) and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI), have jointly developed a specialized training course for judges and other experts.

Activists in Somalia are demanding that their new government do more to investigate rape charges, especially those directed at men in uniform.

Anchor Marco Werman talks with three women who work at a rape crisis center in Mogadishu, and finds out why the entry of women into Somalia's armed forces might be helping to combat rape.

For as long as she could remember, Claudia Paz y Paz was certain she would become a lawyer. Her grandfather, also an attorney, had inculcated in her that the rule of law was the only way to guarantee people's rights.

Today, she is the first female Attorney General of Guatemala.

In the current Martelly-Lamothe administration (2011-2016) from 23 Ministries there are now 10 women ministers who represent 44% of the Government:

A Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in the United States of America has told the Constitution Review Committee of Liberia that a constitution would not be democratic unless its revision considers women participation.

Increasing women's participation in politics and economy and ending violence against women to be a key focus of the visit.

I was honoured to be asked to take part in a panel discussion on day one of the One Voice 2013 women's conference that was held on 26-27 January in Tripoli.

Our moderator was Farah Barqawiy and my co-panelists were Intisar Azzouz a prominent civil society activist and Heba Elshibani journalist and blogger. We were asked to speak for a maximum of 10 minutes.

Mrs Charlotte Osei, Chairman, National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) on Wednesday stressed the need to build capacities at the technical domain and develop tools to ensure effective implementation of programmes towards gender equality.

After years of protesting Iran's human rights violations of political prisoners, Mansoureh Behkish is soon to become a political prisoner herself. Behkish has been summoned by the Iranian authorities to report to the Evin prison in Iran on 29 January 2013 to start a six-month sentence for her involvement with the nonviolent Mourning Mothers movement.