General Women, Peace and Security

The US-led International Security Assistance Force initially said an air strike targeted about 45 insurgents, but later extended its “deepest regrets and sympathies” over “civilians who died or were injured” in Laghman province.

Such incidents have strained ties between the United States and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. In June, Isaf ordered an end to air strikes on homes, except as a last resort.

Signed in November 1945, the constitution came into force one year later following ratification by 20 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, India, Lebanon, UK and the United States.

They were speaking at a seminar organised by a NGO on “role of women as leader in crisis” at the press club on Saturday.

Comrade Jam Saqi said that women played a dominant role in agriculture sector in Sindh but they were gradually deprived of their rights over land through a conspiracy. Women should be made part of decision making and there would be no peace till it happened, he said.

On September 12, the United Nations Kosovo Team (UNKT) at the Swiss Diamond hotel in Pristina, collaborated with the European Union and Kosovo women's leaders and advocates in organizing this event.

Caracas, September 14th 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Women's rights groups presented a series of proposals to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday evening in a televised event at the Teresa Carreño theatre in Caracas.

MONGOLIA: Thanks to the vast mineral wealth inside the region, Mongolia is now showing progress toward the reduction of poverty nationwide. Men, as well as women and their children, throughout Mongolia are now inline to receive a boost from the Mongolian economy because of this, but other sectors inside the nation still need improvement.

Melanne Verveer, Ambassador at Large for Global Women's Issues, will travel to Belgium on September 17 - 18, 2012, to discuss progress in integrating women into peace and security efforts through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). She will travel with William Lietzau, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law and Detainee Policy, who serves as the Department of Defense's lead implementer of the U.S.

On September 5, The Nation's front-page headline read "Asian Peace Council is born".

But looking at the picture of prominent former politicians and "statesmen", we might ask ourselves who gave birth to this council. There was a complete absence of women at the delivery.

Sending a strong message in support of ‘peace among nations,' ten Nobel Peace Prize Laureates have spoken out against a new U.S. reality television show produced by NBC that premiered on Monday night in front of 5.1 million viewers. The show called “Stars Earn Stripes” hosted by retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, brings celebrities like Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street, as well as the husband of former U.S.

Long-term funding by the Australian government has been underpinned by a clear commitment from the heads of Pacific states to exercise their leadership in supporting gender equality.

This has the potential to be a huge step forward.

Hopefully this Forum meeting will be a defining moment when real progress can be initiated.