February 05, 2012 (Care2)
In the war torn area of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo armed rebels rape and pillage women on a regular basis. Since 1996 sexual violence has been used to torture and humiliate women and girls. For them rape is an everyday reality. In fact, hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped in the DRC in that time and the numbers continue to grow. In this hopeless and desperate place, one very brave woman saw hope and joy.
February 03, 2012 (Afghanistan Analysts Network)
Never propose a political system or solution for anybody that you could not live with yourself, not even for women. AAN's Sari Kouvo comments on Anatol Lieven's review ‘Afghanistan: The Best Way to Peace' in the February 2012 issue of the New York Review of Books and notes that Lieven's ‘best way' for women is not one she would accept.
February 02, 2012 (European Parliament News)
EU support in peace processes should be made conditional on women participating in negotiations. That is one of the conclusions of a report on women's situation in war by Romanian Liberal Norica Nicolai. The report proposes several measures to help reinforce the position of women in war-torn countries and to reduce sexual violence against them. The report will be voted on Thursday.
February 01, 2012 (Care2)
A new action plan opens far-reaching possibilities to improve the security of women and the world. With some caution, women's peace advocates plan to monitor its implementation.
February 01, 2012 (Nobel Women's Initiative)
Guatemalan human rights defender Norma Cruz – leader of the women's rights organization ‘Survivors' Foundation' (Fundación Sobrevivientes) – has received repeated death threats because of her work supporting victims of violence against women and calling for those responsible to be prosecuted.
January 31, 2012 (Chinland Guardian )
Women should be included in the ongoing Burma's peace-talk process between the government and ethnic armed groups, a statement by the Karen Women Organization (KWO) said yesterday.
January 31, 2012 (Times Colonist)
There are many barriers to world peace, each of which must be overcome in its own way. One of these obstacles is gender inequality, in which over half the human race is suffering under this oppression. “Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained,” says ‘Abdu'l-Baha, son and authorized interpreter of the founder of the Baha'i Faith, “the highest social development of mankind is not possible.”
January 30, 2012 (The Globe and Mail )
For Tamils, the end of Sri Lanka's civil war has brought no peace dividend; for Tamil women, peace has brought with it a continuation – and in some cases an intensification – of violence and insecurity. In the country's predominantly Tamil-speaking north and east – a region half the size of Nova Scotia – tens of thousands of “war widows” have been living under the control of the central government and Sinhalese security forces since 2009 and the end of the civil war, whose last few months saw as many as 40,000 civilians killed.
January 28, 2012 (Alaska Dispatch)
The most serious negotiations have taken place behind closed doors between NATO and Taliban representatives. Afghan President Hamid Karzai complained that he and other Afghan government officials had been left out of the process. While NATO has taken steps to address Mr. Karzai's concerns, Afghan women's activists say that the council has done little to ensure the inclusion of women in the peace process.
January 22, 2012 (The National)
Where are all the women in Syria's national uprising? Judging by the scarcity of articles detailing the role of women in Syria - compared to the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt or Yemen - it might be easy to assume Syria's women are staying on the sidelines.
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