This is a homage to all those women out there fighting on the streets of Egypt, to those whose voices and faces were hidden from the public eye during the first days of the revolution! The album by now has traveled the world back and forth via online social networks, blogs and websites.

First and foremost the credit for this album goes to the courageous people of Egypt who are teaching us that freedom is taken and not given.

A decade long armed conflict ended in Nepal with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in November 2006. The dialogue process which led to the ceasefire that preceded the CPA, as well as the CPA itself, failed to ensure women's participation at the formal negotiating table.So how could women be included if not at the peace table directly? Nepal's peace process involved Track 1 and Track 2 initiatives simultaneously.

Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: 206 Furman Hall, New York University, 254 Sullivan St (corner of Sullivan Street and 3rd Street)

Contact: Stephanie Kung, skung@madre.org

Come meet MADRE's new Executive Director Yifat Susskind and Haitian women's human rights leaders, and learn about their work to end the epidemic of rape in Haiti.

Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program at Casa de las Américas, the International Symposium on “Women and Emancipation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the 19th and 20th Centuries” will be held from February 21 to 25, 2011, in Havana.

A new photography exhibition, promoting women's rights in Afghanistan, opens next week at the House of Commons.

Hidden Faces: Women and Girls in Afghanistan has been produced and curated by British and Irish Agencies in Afghanistan Group (BAAG) to highlight the continuing struggles of war-ravaged Afghan women - in education and health, economic and political empowerment.

The Abrahim Index:

A photo exhibition featuring Iranian women in demonstrations before the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 is currently underway at the Behzad Gallery in Tehran.

Sixty photos by veteran Iranian photographer and filmmaker Akbar Nazemi have been showcased at the exhibit entitled “Women in Revolution”.

Leading peace activists discuss women's role in the peace process

On the 20th January, three leading women peace activists came together to discuss women's involvement in the peace process:

“What would be different if the Peace Process was run by women?”

Integrating Women in the Peace Process

“It is not that women love peace more than men, but that women are more against war.”

Dear Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,