Participation

A decade long armed conflict ended in Nepal with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in November 2006. The dialogue process which led to the ceasefire that preceded the CPA, as well as the CPA itself, failed to ensure women's participation at the formal negotiating table.So how could women be included if not at the peace table directly? Nepal's peace process involved Track 1 and Track 2 initiatives simultaneously.

Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program at Casa de las Américas, the International Symposium on “Women and Emancipation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the 19th and 20th Centuries” will be held from February 21 to 25, 2011, in Havana.

A new photography exhibition, promoting women's rights in Afghanistan, opens next week at the House of Commons.

Hidden Faces: Women and Girls in Afghanistan has been produced and curated by British and Irish Agencies in Afghanistan Group (BAAG) to highlight the continuing struggles of war-ravaged Afghan women - in education and health, economic and political empowerment.

Leading peace activists discuss women's role in the peace process

On the 20th January, three leading women peace activists came together to discuss women's involvement in the peace process:

“What would be different if the Peace Process was run by women?”

Integrating Women in the Peace Process

“It is not that women love peace more than men, but that women are more against war.”

Despite their 20 percent share of the population, Mayan women in Guatemala have limited political and economic power. They have the country's highest rates of poverty and illiteracy, and, according to an NDI-supported study, are far less likely to vote than any other sector of the population. Only four of 158 deputies in Congress are Mayan women and only one of 333 mayors.

The uprising and social unrest in Tunisia and Egypt – and now possibly continuing in the region - are the result of decades of mistreatment and neglect of the populations in these countries.

Former U.S. Ambassador Nancy Soderberg has dealt with the global issues of war, terrorism, poverty, debt, trade, climate change and health, or in other words, any issue that affects national security.

As the first speaker in the Women's Center of Jacksonville “Women, Words and Wisdom” lecture series Tuesday, she will discuss “Meeting Today's National Security Challenges.”

Few new organizations are formed with as much anticipation as the new UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women -- or "UN Women," for short. Given its bulky official name, some of us feared a "bulky" or bureaucrat start. But, many of those fears were allayed when Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile, was appointed last September as Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director.

Launched in Arbil Thursday of the International Conference on (the role of women in peace-building, reconciliation and accountability in Iraq) with the participation of members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives and the Parliament of Kurdistan and representatives of the UN mission in Iraq and the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Conference, and representatives of civil society organizations and international experts in the fiel