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The International Peace Institute has launched a project aimed at enhancing the participation of women in peace processes at all levels: "From the dinner table to the boardroom table, women’s participation in decision-making is increasing in societies around the world. But the peace table still lags behind, despite many international commitments requiring women’s equal representation.

AIDS-Free World welcomes the UN Secretary-General's reversal of his appointment of 11 men and 3 women to a high-level panel. The panel was struck to review the UN's peace operations. The number of women on the panel has now been doubled, following our letters and statements of protest and mobilization of women's rights advocates.

Check out the following video series explaining CEDAW's three principles:

On December 1st 2014 , the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first ever appeal judgment in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga). The Appeals Chamber upheld, by majority, Lubanga's conviction and 14 year sentence for the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in hostilities from 1 September 2002 to 13 August 2003.

Last week at the Geneva Declaration Regional Review Conference for Sub-Saharan Africa, 26-27 November, civil society groups delivered a strong call for action from States to reduce armed violence.

Director Kimberly Bautista and the Justice for My Sister Collective in Los Angeles and Guatemala will be activating a global 16-day digital campaign to end gender-based violence.

We, sixty women representing thirteen countries spanning the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, together with our colleagues from Europe and North America, gathered together in Turkey at the Third Annual Forum on Women's Rights, Peace and Security, convened by the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), have one word to share with the world: Enough.

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