Women in Black is a women's anti-war movement initiated in 1988 in Israel.

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While representing a month of liberation for many in the Middle East, March was revolutionary for the area in more than one way. At the culmination of Women's History Month, I would like to take note of some very famous women as of late: the female revolutionaries of the Middle East.

I have just returned from a deeply troubling visit to Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia.

Over the weekend in Liberia I visited a transit site for some of the newly arrived refugees from Côte d'Ivoire in Grand Gedah County on the border.

Images of war, rendered on canvas, have traditionally been presented to us in the most morbid forms: John Singer Sargent's chilling trench portrait of blinded troops in Gassed, Picasso's orgy of civil-war violence in Guernica, bloodied battlefields and frontlines from which artists capture live conflict as bombs whizz past them.

Indevelop together with the foundation Kvinna till Kvinna is responsible for managing Sida's International Training Programme in 1325: Women, Peace and Security. It is a five week course with four weeks in Sweden and one abroad.

Hunger and poverty continue to be major obstacles to the well-being of millions of women and children around the world. The Bread for the World Institute says those problems can be reversed by improving the social, economic and political status of rural women.

Executive Director Asma Lateef says reducing global hunger and poverty simply starts with better nutrition.

Addis Ababa, March 31, 2011 (Ezega.com) - As we celebrated International Women's day in March this year, one might ask the question how the status of African women has changed over the years, both on the grass roots level and on the policy level. On this question, both the United Nations and the African Union have been very vocal about the need for protection of women's rights. However, the problem remains in implementing it.

Iraqi women have repeatedly been victims of armed conflict in recent decades. Today, as their dependence on a crumbling social structure grows, many find themselves struggling to make ends meet. The ICRC is helping them get back on their feet.

For the sake of Libyan society as a whole, women must play a more equal and visible role in shaping it.

By building their own businesses, women in Afghanistan are sustaining their communities through years of conflict. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's recent book tells one of their stories.