General Women, Peace and Security

The demand for women's education is on upswing in Pakistan where even parents in rural areas are motivated to send their wards for quality education despite meagre sources of income. Ms.

Twenty-five women were rescued by the Zamboanga sea-based anti-human trafficking task force in two separate operations last Monday.

Acting on a tip from an informant, authorities first rescued nine women who were being kept in a safe house in Barangay Rio Hondo.

The women were to be brought to Malaysia to work, even without the proper travel documents.

Multinational corporations have often ignored human rights, environmental regulations and labor laws in their business practices around the world, causing "exceptional damage" in underdeveloped countries, a Vatican official said.

After curving through miles of Quebec's countryside, the road to Montebello arrives at an enormous log cabin along the Ottawa River. Busloads of women pull up, from Rwanda, Colombia, the Congo, Mexico, Bosnia, Burma -- women who think they can change the world.

Leymah Gbowee from Liberia didn't want the powerful story of Liberian women's peace-making to dominate this morning's round table discussion at the Nobel Women's Initiative conference. The subject was how to get women into negotiations to end conflict. But it was impossible for the Liberian story not to dazzle everyone.

On June 13, four women participating in a democracy demonstration at Tahrir Square in Baghdad were molested and beaten allegedly by government sponsored protestors, according to a report on Ms. Magazine's Website.

The four women were part of a 25-woman group from the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, a leading feminist group in the country, which participated in the demonstration.

It is a crime that is perpetrated against the most vulnerable members of the world's most broken societies – one that destroys the lives of its victims and rips apart the fabric of communities.

The Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) has lauded the Ministry of Education for implementing programmes that empower the girl child.

During the Gender Budget Statement meeting on Tuesday, the ministry's financial advisor, Wilson Rurangwa, indicated that the Ministry had implemented most of its planned programmes for the 2010-2011 financial year.

Much attention has been focused on the process of radicalisation of young men in the areas of Pakistan that border Afghanistan. Peshawar, the town near the border between the two countries, is infamous for being the centre of a vibrant industry and trade in homemade guns.

Sat in the front row in army fatigues and desert boots and patiently listening to children giving their presentation, Lieutenant Colonel Ivette Galarza stands out. Not just because of the way she is dressed, or because she is American, but particularly because she is female.