On Monday, April 18, Citizens for Global Solutions ran a full page advertisement in the New York Times that calls for three essential actions for the U.N. to take in Libya. We are reaching out to Americans because we now live in a new age where the international community has accepted its responsibility to protect.

Having a job allows us to treat our family with tasty food, enjoy friendships with our colleagues and most importantly see our personal contribution in helping the country prosper. Employment and creation of new jobs is one of government priorities.

Considering the scope and complexity of this task, partnerships of state organizations, private business and civil society institutions are crucial.

FIRDAUS KHARAS, Chairman of Chocolate Moose Media and Culture Shift launched today a new global campaign to prevent domestic violence and abuse. The campaign targets are adaptation in 73 languages, use in 100 countries, to be viewed by 1 billion viewers.

2 May 2011 - 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, ECOSOC Chamber, North Lawn Building, United Nations Headquarters, New York

About the event :

UN Women and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is hosting a panel Securing justice for women in post-conflict states on Monday, 2 May 2011, 10:00–13:00, at the United Nations Headquarters.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a film documenting how the hopes and dreams of women, indigenous and disadvantaged groups in Nepal were fused into the country's new constitution.

A mother and daughter from Afghanistan trying to bring change through business. CNN's Mary Snow reports.

Watch video here.

Let us be crystal clear from the start. It's never ever more Tomahawk missles.

As the U.N. Women's War and Peace page reports:

While women remain a minority of combatants and perpetrators of war, they increasingly suffer the greatest harm.

Open call for artists and filmmakers

The Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University announces a call for participation in a future exhibition planned for September 2011.

The exhibition is a critical exploration of the transformations in representations of women in Palestinian visual arts within a changing political context since the 70s.

Margot Wallström, the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, briefed the Security Council today, discussing cases of sexual violence in several recent conflicts, including in Libya, Côte d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On Libya, she laments that they make no mention of the risk of sexual violence.