In the last week of September, the As-Sahab Foundation, which disseminates al-Qaeda messages and propaganda, released a video clip showing a group of militants launching mortar attacks on Pakistani army sites.
The attacks and the clip were attributed to Aafia Siddiqui.
Patriarchal values in Asian politics and reluctance among mediators to include women have led to poor female representation in peacemaking, said the world's largest privately-owned mediation organization.
Like many women in East Timor, 34 year-old Mariquita Soares joined the Revolutionary Front for an
Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) party during the nation's 24-year resistance struggle against Indonesian occupation from 1975 to 1999.
As the city`s partner, Women's Organization Cooperation Body (BKOW) always support and actively participate in the city development. Through its work programs, BKOW has tried to enhance its role to cut the chain of poverty and hunger.
HANOI (Xinhua) - Vietnam will host the 14th meeting of the General Assembly of the ASEAN Confederation of Women's Organizations (ACWO) from Oct. 19 to 20, according to the Vietnam Women's Union on Tuesday.
The meeting is expected to draw more than 200 delegates from women's organizations of countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and several international organizations.
Thirty members of the All-Women Corps in the Civilian Protection Component of the International Monitoring Team (IMT), most of them wearing white blouses, took their oath of service Monday morning, pledging their “time, efforts, skills and talent on a 24/7 basis, to assist, accompany and defend the Constitutional and internationally guaranteed rights of Internally Displaced Persons.”
Afghanistan's parliamentary election was accompanied by claims of rampant fraud, but that wasn't its only failing. The ballot may also have given the outside world a false impression of progress on women's rights.
A record number of women ran in the September 18 election - there were 385 female candidates, 57 more than in the 2005 polls, among the 2,446 vying for 249 seats in parliament,
Valmathi Jegadas is a different sort of mine clearer to the testosterone-fuelled explosives specialists portrayed in the 2008 Oscar-winning Hollywood hit, The Hurt Locker. A farmer's wife in northern Sri Lanka, Jegadas, 37, earns 200 dollars a month risking her life, and she admits being scared each time she steps into the minefields that are a legacy of the island's long and bloody civil war.
The United Nations is very impressed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon's (Unifil) Malaysia (Malcon) East contingent and has increased the Malaysian peacekeeping unit's scope of duties, said Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) chief Gen Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin.
Amid the controversy over the Islamic cultural center in NYC and Pastor Terry Jones' threats of burning the Quran in Florida, a recent Pew Research Center poll revealed that 42 percent of Americans believe Islam encourages violence while 55 percent admit that they do not know very much about Islam.
