Young Palestinian women took the initiative to be in the front line of the March 15 protests in Palestine to protect the protesters. With their bodies they created a human shield in an attempt to prevent any expected fights. Some of the protesters were on hunger strike for the third day. They simply called for an end to Palestinian division.

Sandra Morán reminds us all why international grassroots solidarity is so important. “We are all part of the same movement,” she says.

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For the first time in the history of Bangladesh, a woman has overseen municipal elections, ensuring their accordance with electoral laws and providing guidance to presiding officers.

Jesime Tuli, who holds more than three decades of experience in the country's Election Commission, last year managed and executed the elections, upholding the rules of the Commission.

I. Less than ten kilometres from Bhubaneswar is Dhaulagiri, site of an Asokan edict associated with his renunciation of war. The legend is that Asoka was the archetypal ambitious, ruthless and even fratricidal prince whose brutal wars savaged their victims. The war with Kalinga was no exception. Asoka, moved to remorse at the sight of the destruction he had wrought, is said to have foresworn violence.

On March 23rd, 2011 women from across West Africa including Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo gathered outside the headquarters of ECOWAS to demand, with one voice, the immediate cessation of the human rights abuse against peaceful political protestors in Cote d'Ivoire.

Recent media reports have focused on the stalled progress for women in Afghanistan and the shift in the international community's focus as they take steps towards an eventual military withdrawl. Although there's much work to be done, it's important to note that there has been tangible improvement for women in Afghanistan. A decade ago, women weren't allowed to go out in public alone.

Straight from the frontlines in Gaza, Pakistan, Egypt, and Iraq, they are women peace builders who are changing the world one step at a time, in the midst of an unprecedented degree of war, revolution and strife besieging their communities every day.

An extraordinarily powerful documentary, CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs. Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, childhood friends and lawyers, enjoyed the lives of "ordinary modern women" in Bosnia-Herzegovina until one day former neighbors became tormentors.