General Women, Peace and Security

While some members of the last Commission have courted controversy with their employment, former Commissioner Margot Wallstrom has become the UN Special Representative on sexual violence in conflict on a recent stop to Brussels she spoke to Andy Carling.

UNAMID's Gender Advisory Unit has began mobilizing women representatives in North Darfur Civil Society organizations to participate in the preparatory meeting for the upcoming open day on the 10th Anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, which falls on 7 June.

“I am really happy that the Secretary-General decided to send me to represent him at the 7th Council of Europe's Conference of Ministers responsible for Equality between Women and Men titled "Gender equality: bridging the gap between de jure and de facto gender equality," Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said on 24 May in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the conference took place.

Donald Stienburg-Submission to the "Together for Transformation" Conference of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation's Women Peacemakers Program, The Hague, Netherlands.

Fatmire Feka glanced at the skies over her Kosovo village. Storm clouds darkened the horizon, and rain started to fall.

"I felt as if God was crying tears of pain," Feka says. "God was crying because he knew what was about to happen."

Amnesty International has condemned the Brazilian Supreme Court's blocking of a reinterpretation of a 1979 Amnesty Law that protects members of the former military government from being put on trial for extrajudicial killings, torture and rape.

Four years after voters in Liberia, battered by decades of dictatorship, economic ruin and civil war, elected a no-nonsense former banker and UN official, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, as their president, the country is making slow progress towards recovery. But there is still a long way to go.

For sustainable solution to existing security situation faced by the country due to ongoing conflict at western borders, it is vital to involve women at all levels of reconciliation and rehabilitation process.