Asia

"We embrace peace because we want to secure our future"

Kurdistan's activists embraced as messengers of peace to the Region, Iraq, and the rest of the Middle East.

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.

PT Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII) and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, have signed a cooperation agreement to enhance the bank's products and services towards female entrepreneurs, allowing women to obtain financing for their businesses more easily.

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).

Bhim Bahadur Rawal, Minister for Home Affairs and the leader of the Nepali delegation to the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday addressed the Ministerial-level event “A 1325 Call to Action” co-hosted by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, Canada, Bangladesh, Chile, Liberia, Namibia, Sierra Leone and United Kingdom in the UN headquarters in New Yor

When her husband was arrested for links to an insurgency raging in this southern region, Pattama Heemmima joined the ranks of Malay-Muslim women forced into the unfamiliar routine of visiting police stations, military camps and courts to secure the freedom of their imprisoned kin.

The Turkish folk music artist Pınar Sağ is is tried for her saying, “Let the armed conflicts on our mountains end, peace should come and nobody should die” at the Düzgün Baba Festival in the Nazimiye district of Tunceli (eastern Anatolia) last year. The Nazimiye Public Prosecutor pressed charges of “praising crime and a criminal” against the artist.

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.

Standing up to Taliban death threats, a record number of women participated in Afghan parliamentary elections September 18.

“I am happy that Afghan women are becoming interested in politics day by day,” Fatana Gilani, head of the Afghan Women's Association, told Central Asia Online. “I am optimistic for the future of women in Afghanistan.”

Only fifteen of nearly four hundred persons, most of them women, were allowed to witness before Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) in Mullaiththeevu Government Secretariat Monday while the others were driven away, sources in Mullaiththeevu said.