From October 28 to 30, 2013, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), The World Bank, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) – North America, Women in International Security (WIIS), Promundo – US, and Sonke Gender Justice co-hosted a symposium titled Men, Peace & Security: Agents of Change at the USIP headquarters in Washington, DC.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced a new partnership to support her No Ceilings initiative. The Institute for Inclusive Security and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security will convene government and civil society leaders from around the world to create roadmaps for advancing women's leadership roles in ending wars and constructing durable peace.

Women's rights civil society movements from the Asia Pacific region gathered at the United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok on 10-11 February 2014, call upon our region's governments to take this opportunity of the Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) and the 58th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women, to advance commitments related to gender equality and women's and girls' rights, development and

It is time to take action to strengthen integration of development and conflict agendas from a gender perspective and ensure goals move from words to implementation and impact.

In 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are set to expire. Although they have not yet all been accomplished, many discussions at the UN are addressing what should come next.

Iran's capital of Tehran on Sunday hosted the third Conference of Muslim Women Parliamentarians, with an Iranian female lawmaker elected as the chairwoman of the Muslim Women Parliamentarians Committee.
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Laleh Eftekhari, a member of the Iranian parliament, took over from a female Sudanese legislator as the new chairperson of the Women Parliamentarians Committee for a one-year period.

In the day-to-day lives of women in Sudan, it's easy for a man to rape a women and get away with it. However, a woman has to know the right people if she hopes to get anywhere close to justice.

In the lead-up to the Geneva II negotiations, Syrian activists, local and international organizations, the UN, and various foreign governments made a clear demand: Women must be at the table. During the first round of talks in late January, both the regime and opposition delegations heeded that call, to differing extents. Below, we've documented what we know so far about women's formal roles in the Syria peace talks.

UN Peace Talks on Syria Collectively Failed Women

by Maria Butler February 10, 2014

Joint Statement by Latin America and Caribbean Civil Society Organizations at the Regional Consultation for Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and achievements in implementing the Millennium Development Goals for Women and Girls (Mexico 6 and 7 February 2014).

The horrors are so terrible that they sound made up but—somehow—they aren't.

A woman raped in front of her husband. In front of her parents-in-law. Forced to watch her child killed and then raped. Forced to have sex with her son in front of militants. Raped when nine months' pregnant.