General Women, Peace and Security

As we mark this year's 16 Days of Activism, I affirm from experience that militarised violence does devastate any chance of peace in the home. The strong link between ending violence against women and ending wars was restated for me, as I watched the latest Israeli military Operation “Pillar of Defence” in the last two weeks.

Australia is usually seen as a progressive society, with an excellent reputation for upholding United Nations' Treaties. However, over the last decade there have been a number of changes taking place that have tended to 'politicise' situations and turn issues such as asylum seekers into security threats and a greater willingness to participate in wars in countries not necessarily seen as a threat by the general population (e.g.

The massive amounts of violence perpetrated against women are a blatant violation of human rights and our WILPF members are citizens to countries where armed violence against women takes place daily. One of the main questions we ask here at Reaching Critical Will and WILPF International is, why are women's rights and security so neglected at the local, national, and international levels?

Subjugating women of the enemy or of ‘the other', through sexual violence is a commonly used tactic, which implies that the women are no more than chattel. This is as much true of inter-State Conflicts as of intra-State conflicts. Yet what was recently witnessed in India in the recent genocidal attacks by Hindus against Muslims in 2002 passes all belief.

Asia Pacific Women's Watch (APWW) is a regional network representing voices from across the five sub-regions of Asia and the Pacific. APWW welcomes the priority theme for the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls'.

Regional Dialogue on Enhancing Women's Leadership in Peace and Security in West Africa
UNITED NATIONS Mission in Liberia

Happy women may equal world peace

Who: Valerie Hudson, co-author of “Sex and World Peace”

What: Reception, lecture and book signing

When: Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Where: University Center Theatre, University of Memphis

Kvindernes Internationale Liga for Fred og Frihed
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

To:
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Villy Sövndal
The Minister of Development Aid Christian Friis Bach
The Minister of Defence Nich Häkkerup

Four years since the adoption of the Comprehensive Approach to EU implementation of UNSCR 1325 and 1820 on Women, Peace and Security (Comprehensive Approach), the EU continues to support the full implementation of UNSCR 1325 and subsequent resolutions (1820, 1888, 1889 and 1960), yet much remains to be done to match the EU ambitions on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.

awing on the global reach and reputation of the International Herald Tribune and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the world's biggest news and information provider, Trust Women seeks to empower women to know and defend their rights.

It aims to drive innovation and partnerships by connecting legal expertise with the financial, technological and educational resources that enable women to exercise their rights.