General Women, Peace and Security

Ten years after a landmark Security Council resolution about the role women can play in promoting peace and security, the world has not lived up to its own expectations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, urging countries to translate their rhetoric into action.

The Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (MoPR) has prepared an action plan for the implementation of the Resolution No. 1325 women and peace and security and Resolution No. 1820 on sexual violence of the United Nations.

A final discussion on the action plan that has been readied holding wide discussions in 40 districts was held between the stakeholders on Monday.

Ten years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 which called for women to be better represented in peacemaking, some 50 women active in the Mindanao peace process will come together on October 5, 2010 in Aleosan, North Cotabato. They will formally launch the all-women corps in the Civilian Protection Component (CPC) of the International Monitoring Team (IMT).

Financial pledges and policy commitments to scale up health and family planning services for women in 25 developing countries rolled out Wednesday, during the last lap of the three-day Millennium Development Goals review summit.

Donors' answer to the United Nations' request for a $169 billion women and children's health plan fell predictably short at $40 billion, with about half of that committed at previous events.

Zimbabwe's efforts to meet its Millennium Development Goals have been pinned back by the illegal Western sanctions on the country, President Mugabe has said.

In his address to the high-level plenary meeting on MDGs yesterday, the President said Zimbabwe - with the resources at its disposal and with constructive partnerships with the international community - would meet the targets.

A major focus of this year's convening of the Clinton Global Initiative is empowering girls and women, as I report in this dispatch from the CGI 2010 conference in New York.

Despite a call to action, the outcome document of the MDG summit makes bare mention of conflict and fragility, which need to be achieved before goals can be realised, claim g7+ members.

A single mother of three, survivor of prison torture and exile. A pediatrician, linguist and practised buster of gender barriers as the first female president of Chile. This is the resume that makes Michelle Bachelet an excellent choice to lead the newly created UN agency to promote gender equality around the globe, to be called UN Women.

This is a speech delivered by President Mugabe at a high-level plenary meeting on Millennium Development Goals in New York yesterday.

At a noon press conference, live streamed from the United Nations (UN), the new Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, former Chilean President Michele Bachelet, faced a room full of international reporters.