General Women, Peace and Security

Rwanda's National Action Plan on UN Security Council resolution 1325 was officially launched during the International Forum on the Role of Leadership in Promoting, Accelerating and Sustaining Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Kigali, Rwanda on 17-18 May.

Rwanda's National Action Plan on UN Security Council resolution 1325 was officially launched during the International Forum on the Role of Leadership in Promoting, Accelerating and Sustaining Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Kigali, Rwanda on 17-18 May.

Women's legal status is weak in patriarchal Palestinian society. The right to inherit is an especially weak point not least when it comes to the inheritance of land. The EU has granted 5,6 mio. kroner to DanChurchAid's work to secure women their legal right of inheritance. Women's right to inherit is a matter of awareness for both men and women - and legal aid to women whose right of inheritance is threatened.

As a part of the US – Pakistan Strategic Dialogue initiated in March, 2010 by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melane Verveer and Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Social Sector Shahnaz Wazir Ali on Friday chaired a dialogue on women empowerment.

Ahead of a week-long meeting on gender equality starting Monday at the United Nations, women's rights activists have been pushing for concrete progress on a pledge made last September by the world body to create a new, better-funded U.N. agency for women.

As Security Council Resolution 1325 on the role of women in peace and security marks its tenth anniversary in 2010, the United Nations has appointed a group of independent experts to advise on ways to better protect women in conflict situations and ensure that their voices are heard in peace processes, and that they are included in post-conflict reconstruction and governance structures.

The ‘Sierra Leone National Action Plan (SiL NAP) on United Nation Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820' has been launched in Freetown on Tuesday 8th June 2010. This special event is hosted by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender & Children's Affairs (MSWGCA) in collaboration with the United Nations, Cord aid, WANEP, WANMAR 1325 and Femme Africa Solidarity.

An interview with Sharon Bhagwan Rolls of femLINKPACIFIC, a feminist communications organisation in Fiji.

AWID: Last month, there was a military coup in Fiji, the fourth in 22 years. What is the situation at the moment?

The United Nations (UN) is surprised at the continued incidents of rape and other gender-targeted violence in Liberia, despite the restoration of peace, a visiting UN official said last week while on a tour of Liberia.

"The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign today presented the President of the UN General Assembly, Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki with its global petition and pressed for the UN to establish a strong new agency for women by July 2010. The petition, signed by 34,555 women and men from 165 countries and territories and bound with the Campaign's slogan “GEAR UP!” was handed over to Dr.