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Taiwan's former vice president on Friday will talk about the crucial role of women in maintaining world peace and the importance of soft power in the peaceful resolution of marine conflicts in Asia.

Annette Lu, the first female vice president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), will deliver her special remarks at the launching of the Global Women's Peace Network–Asia (GWPN) at the Manila Hotel.

Two decrees reconstituted the council, which advises the government on new legislation, for a new four-year term - and stated that women should always hold at least a fifth of its 150 seats.

The king took the decisions following consultations with religious leaders.

The council has had female "advisers", but women still have little role in public life in the conservative state.

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and a handful of other senators met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Washington, D.C., to discuss the upcoming 2014 election and women's rights in the war-laden country.

Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor at Clark University has written the blog: Combat: The Zone of Women's Liberation? We are happy to share this blog with you.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's announcement that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on American military women in serving in combat is notable in so far as it represents another step in rolling back masculine privilege in a major U.S. public institution.

One of Fatou Bensouda‘s missions as the new chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is to make rape during conflicts a thing of the past.

She was thrust into politics by default at the age of 20, and is said to be the world's youngest legislators in a country that ranks highly for female representation in parliament.

But for 20-year-old Ugandan MP Proscovia Alengot Oromait, it's not just her age that has been a big detractor for her critics. It's also her gender.

The conflict in the Eastern DR Congo provinces of North and South Kivu between the Kinshasa government and the M23 movement of mostly mutineers has displaced over 900,000 people, mostly women and children. Women Civil Society Organizations operating in the affected region now want both parties engaged in the Kampala peace talks mediated by Uganda's defense minister Dr.

The unlawful occupation regime attempting to govern Libya without any success has a fake `General National Congress` (GNC) limited to members who by new law must have no relation or support for direct participatory democracy.

The Likud-Beytenu list changes tactics • Instead of attacking Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett, it goes after other candidates on his list, saying they are extremists or chauvinists, and that one called for abolishing the Committee on the Status of Women • Habayit Hayehudi: ”We have three women in the top 12 spots. The Likud has only one.”

The Knesset Election Committee will discuss the possibility of disqualifying Hareidi parties because they have no women on their lists