Men put down their guns 10 years ago here in Liberia, yet violence is still a regular and terrifying feature of women's lives.

Doctors report having treated babies who were raped, men are impregnating girls as young as 12 and any public conversation about the prevalence of female genital mutilation (practiced by the majority of the 16 tribes in Liberia) is taboo.

80% of People Fleeing Mali Conflict are Women and Children

Rabia Mariam is a businesswoman who employs an all-women workforce to manufacture scarves and rugs from silk, cotton-silk blend, and wool in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan. Working with the USAID IDEA-NEW program, she employs nearly 1,000 women - many of them widows. Many of these Afghan women raise silkworms at home and boil cocoons, and go to weaving centers to weave the scarves and other handicrafts.

These are what true women warriors look like. Mujeres de la Guerra, Historias de El Salvador (documentary, book, photography) highlights 28 women leaders in El Salvador telling their stories of participating in the Salvadoran civil war and their continued work for justice and peace today.

This past Saturday marked three years since Haiti was stuck by a devastating earthquake. There is a place in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, called Cité Soleil. It means Sun City, and it is the poorest place, most dangerous place to live in this hemisphere.

The Women in Public Service Institute at Bryn Mawr College is a two-week program for emerging women leaders from post-conflict countries organized by Bryn Mawr and co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr, the U.S. State Department, and the Wilson Center as part of the Women in Public Service Project (WPSP).

On the occasion of its 54th session, to be held in Geneva from 11 February to 1 March 2013, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women will hold a half-day general discussion on access to justice in the context of the following provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Convention):

During the Libyan revolution, Gadhafi ordered his soldiers to “rape the women.” He targeted the families of the Freedom Fighters. Gadhafi's goal was to break society apart. Today, many families are suffering. With more than 8,000 rape victims during the war, people are left wondering who is helping the victims and their families.

Without a doubt, the inevitable fall of the murderous Iranian regime of Ayatollahs will be brought about by the female fighters.

The Iranian Resistance is mainly composed of women, and not surprisingly its President, Maryam Rajavi, is a woman. This is a thorn in the side of the cruel religious regime, and which is why they have further exacerbated the repression of women.