General Women, Peace and Security

Nafis Sadik, a special advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and professor Shirley Randell, one of Australia's 100 Inaugural Women of Influence in 2012, were among the participants of an international summit in İstanbul, which kicked off on Saturday with a program dedicated to discussions on a variety of topics, including women's empowerment and food security as part of the United Nations Development Agenda from the perspective of

Northeast India comprises the contiguous Eight States—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. The region has been facing the onslaught of multiple armed conflicts for many decades. The issues aggravated after the introduction of the Armed Forces Special Power Act. More than 50,000 lives have been lost in the violence.

The UN-backed war crimes court in Cambodia has been asked to examine a range of allegations covering the Khmer Rouge's period in power, including the regime's use of sexual violence.

Around two million people are believed to have died during the Khmer Rouge's rule during the late 1970s, most from execution, starvation, disease and overwork.

May 13, 2014 (JUBA) – The leaders of a South Sudanese women's group have called on the government and rebels to cease hostilities and begin to implement the security deal signed by both parties on 9 May.

Yangon ( AsiaNews) - The current political initiatives "based on religion", including the proposal for the amendment of the law on mixed marriages, "are not in agreement with the goals of peaceful coexistence between all faiths". At the same time, they do not contribute to the fight against "extremist violence and conflict" but only serve to "distract the public in view of the 2015 elections".

Kavita Krishnan is a central leader of the Communist Party of India―Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) and editor of its magazine Liberation.

Osama bin Laden, Al-Zarqawi, Mullah Omar: we know these names because they were on a kill list, a targeted roster the United States uses to pursue and kill people who are a threat to our national security.

JAIPUR: The National Commission for Women, chairperson, Mamta Sharma on Friday hit out against Congress government in centre for failing to allocate funds under the Nirbhaya Fund announced in 2013 union budget.

Baghdad, 6 February 2014 – The Government of Iraq today launched its National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2014-2018), thus becoming the first country in the Middle East and North Africa Region to launch such a program.

As the recent abduction of nearly 300 Nigerian girls by terror group Boko Haram sheds light on the dramatic situation of women's rights in many countries, IBTimesUK has decided to tell the story of Sadia Khan, a Pakistani refugee in Sri Lanka, who fears she might be killed by Pakistani authorities.

"People think that in Pakistan crimes are committed only by the Taliban," the young activist told IBTimesUK.