The Government of India failed to advance human rights and justice when it did not accept the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Council to repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) still in force today in the North East of India.

The problems of women soldiers who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan are addressed in the new documentary "Service: When Women Come Marching Home." It tells their stories of lost limbs, homelessness, psychological issues, sexual assault and how they can get help.

Last week, I came to Bogotá to participate in the Peace Summit of Mayors and Governors. The event was sponsored by Gustavo Petro, the Mayor of Bogotá, and included the participation of local and regional authorities from some of the most war-torn parts of Colombia. International guarantors for the event included three representatives from the U.S.

Approximately 19,000 sexual assaults take place in the U.S. military each year; Ruth Moore, at the age of 18, survived two of them. Ruth enlisted in the U.S. Navy during her senior year of high school in search of a better life. Her family couldn't afford college and the military was her best chance at obtaining a college degree. In 1987, after boot camp and service school, Ruth was posted overseas in the Azores.

Yesterday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos delivered his address to the General Assembly. He noted his “moderate optimism” that after two years of exploratory talks with the FARC, a short agenda for peace talks had been established that would be pursued in coming weeks in Oslo and Havana.

This book traces changes in ideas and policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF—the longest-living international women's peace organization) over a thirty-year period, from 1945 to 1975.

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage. Nowhere in the world do women share equal social and economic rights with men or the same access as men to productive resources. Economic globalization and development are creating new challenges for women's rights as well as some new opportunities for advancing women's economic independence and gender equality.

We the women of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and South Asia, with our colleagues from North

On Thursday, Sept. 27, at 6:30 p.m., the West African Research Association, a consortium of scholars and institutions with interest in West Africa, will host a panel discussion on Peace and Conflict in West Africa in collaboration with the Cambridge Peace Commission. The event will take place in the auditorium of the main branch of the Cambridge Public Library.

In 1983 Australia was one of the first countries to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This is to be expected of a liberal democracy that purports to uphold the rights of all people. At the time Australia entered two reservations to CEDAW. These were in relation to paid parental leave and the employment of women in combat or combat-related positions in the defence force.