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Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer, Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls Tina Tchen, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Rosa Brooks, and Director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force at USAID Jim Bever on June 9 participated in a State Department hosted roundtable discussion on Women in Afghanistan.

Underscoring the role that women play in building stronger societies, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for greater numbers of female police officers to serve with United Nations peacekeeping missions worldwide.

A round table hosted by the EU Ambassador to Montenegro Mr. Leopold Maurer, to mark International Women's Day, entitled: Women's Rights in Montenegro, was held in Podgorica today.

The Alliance of Women's Legislative Initiatives organized in Bishkek a National Conference on "Women's Political Participation in the Constitutional Reform and Parliamentary Elections" to develop a common position of the civil society organizations on women's participation in key political reforms and processes.

“Kyrgyzstan would not have prosperity without women's support, Omurbek Tekebayev, deputy head of the interim government said Monday at the National Conference “Women political participation in constitutional reform and parliamentary elections”.

Women who fled conflict and oppression in military-ruled Burma have become a potent political force during their lives in exile, says a leading women's rights activist from the South-east Asian country's Shan ethnic minority.Nothing confirms this more than the fact that the Women's League of Burma (WLB), a network of 13 women's groups in exile based in this northern Thai city, marked its 10th anniversary in December 2009.

The motivation behind a new political party in Solomon Islands is to get more women into parliament.

It's the first party since independence in 1978 with a charter focusing on women's issues.

It's called the 'Twelve Pillars to Peace and Prosperity Party' or TP4.

However, membership is not restricted to women, anyone who identifies with the 12 pillars contained in the party's charter are welcome to join.

Earlier this month, I was invited by the White House to watch President Obama nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court.

The ceremony was even more moving than I expected, and that took me a little by surprise.

A law on gender parity in electoral lists, approved by a large majority in Senegal's National Assembly, has been welcomed by women from diverse walks of life.

For legislator Ndèye Fatou Touré, the law will give a considerable boost to women. "Parity is a lifting of obstacles, an open door. This law will allow women equal access to decision-making," she told IPS.

Amnesty International has welcomed a decision by the Philippine government to implement a United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution, which aims to ensure the protection of women's rights during armed conflict and post-conflict situations.

The Philippine government launched the National Action Plan (NAP) on Women Peace and Security in Quezon City, on Friday, 26 March. "This is a step in the right direction.