Still audible through the increasingly sectarian cacophony of Syria's ongoing civil war, a small but influential group of Syrian and foreign women are telling the stories of the country's destruction in unique and meaningful ways. Present in all aspects of the conflict, women are penning the history of Syria.

Today we mark the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide and offer our thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families. The events that took place on this day 18 years ago began a chain of events that led to the deaths of over 8,000 men and boys and the forced removal of 30,000 women and girls.

A Libyan women's rights organisation is mounting a powerful media campaign against domestic violence, street harassment and public denigration of women.

The Noor (“Light”) campaign is setting up billboards on streets in some 20 cities across Libya to raise awareness about street harassment. TV and radio adverts are also used as part of the efforts.

Press Release-- UNICEF

Today, as Pacific countries gather to plan the “future we want,” UN agencies and partners from across the region are calling for children, youth and women to be at the heart of sustainable development.

It is with dismay that Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's project “MENA Agenda 1325″ learns of escalating attacks on women protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square. Reports by our Egyptian partners and Human Rights Watch indicate growing levels of extreme sexual violence against women who have taken to the streets alongside men protesting for democracy and justice in Egypt.

The World Health Organisation recently trained the spotlight on gender-based violence, particularly in Africa, where almost half of all women will experience physical or sexual assault in their lifetime.

PRESS RELEASE

UN Special Envoy Mary Robinson, Femmes Africa Solidarité and the International
Conference on the Great Lakes Region to organize the first Regional Conference on
Women, Peace, Security and Development in the Great Lakes region

Implementing the Framework of Hope and the UNSCR 1325

The Youth Exploring Solutions (YES), a passionate, non-profit and voluntary youth-led development organization that is primarily a self-sponsored institution since its inception in 2007 has launched its project named and styled 'Enhancing Women's Participation in Leadership and Governance' in the Borough of New Kru Town on the campus of D-Tweh Public School.

Only one woman sat among the 14 people who flanked General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Egyptian state television as he announced Egypt's new constitutional order. In President Mohammed Morsi's cabinet, there were two – out of 24 people.

Khadiga Hussein, former minister of state at the Ministry for Peace, and founder of Sudanese Mothers for Peace and Development (SMP), led a workshop on women's empowerment in Sudan at a conference on ‘Just Governance' at the international centre for Initiatives of Change in Caux, Switzerland.