On Thursday, January 16th, 2014, PeaceWomen, along with the Mission of Liechtenstein and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, hosted the twelfth panel of our Women, Peace and Security lecture series, titled “Women's Participation and WPS Accountability in Syria: Geneva II Peace Negotiations and Beyond.&rdquo

The EU must ensure a gender balanced approach as it spearheads talks between Kosovo and Serbia, writes Lena Ag.

EU high representative, Catherine Ashton, is showing great courage in taking on the task of facilitating dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. The ongoing talks have opened up new possibilities to normalise the frosty relations between the two countries.

The campaign to ensure women's equal participation at the peace talks on Syria in January has become more urgent, as certain parties recognize that women are vital in rebuilding and reconciling Syrian society. Yet only a few weeks before the talks are scheduled to start, no commitment has been made as to whether women will actually sit at the negotiating table between the Syrian government and the opposition.

There are over fifty Syrian women in Geneva this week. They are demanding a ceasefire in Syria and to be part of the planned peace talks in Geneva, January 22. Supported by international women's organisations, they are there to break the medieval narrative and to ensure that the voices of those who believe in humanity are heard.

On the first day that Jineth Bedoya Lima arrived for work at the offices of Colombia National Radio in Bogotá, she was assigned to cover a story that would become her life. That day, in December 1996, her task was to report on a riot at what is probably the most dangerous prison in the world, La Modelo, infamous as a focal point for trafficking in drugs and arms between the forces of state, cartels and rival militias.

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Meet the women who are pushing for equality and justice for women across the world. The Nobel Women's Initiative laureates join us to talk about why it's important for women to have a seat at the table for Syrian peace negotiations in January.

Next month in Geneva, rebels will sit down to talk to representatives of President Bashar al-Assad's government about a peace plan to end Syria's civil war -- a conflict that has killed over 100,000 people since 2011 and driven a third of the population from their homes. In the room alongside the rebels and government officials will be a whole slew of negotiators from various Western countries and Russia.

When Eritrea earned independence from Ethiopia in 1991, it was seen by many as a revolutionary moment that would usher in freedom and equality. But more than fifteen years later, the “reality is the liberation-army-turned-government is led by a brutal dictator and his handful cronies. There are no systems of representation or participation in the government.

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