The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has committed to supporting eight African countries in their efforts to ensure adolescent girls have access to reproductive healthcare and human rights education.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (1325) was unanimously adopted in October 2000 as a means “to reaffirm the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peace-building and stressing the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security.” In short, it represented the broadest p

The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security welcomed the UN Security Council's attention to “the full and effective participation of women in conflict resolution and peace building” in today's high-level meeting on the Great Lakes region, including the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Campus for Peace and the Conflictology Studies and Research Centre (CREC‐IN3) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) have the pleasure to invite you to the 6 Congress on Conflictology and Peace, which will take place on 3‐4 October 2013 in Barcelona.

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International Alert's training and learning team recently held a four-day training on gender-responsive peacebuilding for UN Women and the UN's Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) in New York.

KATHMANDU, July 29: An official delegation from Timor-Leste led by Minister for Social Solidarity Isabel Amaral Guterres arrived in Kathmandu on Monday on a five-day visit.

The four-member delegation will meet Nepali officials to acquire first-hand experience of peace building and post-conflict reconstruction in Nepal, according to a press statement issued by the UNDP office in Kathmandu.

Serbia, an aspiring European Union member, succeeded in increasing the percentage of women in its Parliament substantially within the last year. It is consequently ahead of the United States and many other developed countries and older democracies by several spots on a global female Parliamentarian leader list.

When Sevda Cibo returned to the Sarajevo suburb of Hadzici in March 1996 after spending most of the war as a refugee, she found her house in ruins with only a few walls still standing.

With a family to support and no other means of earning an income to rebuild her home, she began using one simple skill – knitting.

Côte d'Ivoire's political crisis in 2001 worsened the humanitarian situation in the country and gender-based violence (GBV) grew to affect 67% of women.