United Nations India and Bangladesh have taken a lead in sending female police officers to serve in United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world as the world body aims to have 20 per cent women in its police force by 2040.
In 2007, India sent the first contingent of women officers to serve in Liberia and has since then rotated this team thrice.
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian journalist and prominent human rights activist, was arrested on June 10th by Intelligence Ministry Officials at her home in Tehran.
“Seven Burmese military soldiers attacked me and three of my friends,” says Chang Chang, from the Northern Kachin State of Burma. That was when her life going to school and working on the family farm was shattered.
Chang Chang is one of 12 courageous women from Burma who have come to the CSW to share their stories in front of a special International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma.
A meeting was held on Friday in Kathmandu under the banner of Global Open Day for Women and Peace in Nepal between 24 women peace activists from all parts of Nepal and UNMIN chief Karin Landgren and the Acting UN Resident Coordinator Gillian Mellsop.
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer, Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls Tina Tchen, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Rosa Brooks, and Director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force at USAID Jim Bever on June 9 participated in a State Department hosted roundtable discussion on Women in Afghanistan.
The first woman to run for president of Afghanistan, Moussada Jalal, told Canadians on Tuesday that engaging the Taliban in a bid to end an eight-year-old war would set back women's rights.
Peace talks with the Taliban is "bad news for women in Afghanistan," Jalal, a former minister of women's affairs, told reporters. "I hope it doesn't happen."
Roza Otunbaeva, President of the Kyrgyz Republic for the Transition Period signed up for the UN Secretary General's Campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women” reaffirming the commitment to make ending violence against women and girls a top priority at the state level.
The Alliance of Women's Legislative Initiatives organized in Bishkek a National Conference on "Women's Political Participation in the Constitutional Reform and Parliamentary Elections" to develop a common position of the civil society organizations on women's participation in key political reforms and processes.
Noa Raz, a young woman waiting to board a bus, was recently attacked by a man because her arm bore the imprints of tefillin straps, which Jewish men wrap around their arms during morning prayers.
"You're an abomination," the man shouted while kicking her.
“Kyrgyzstan would not have prosperity without women's support, Omurbek Tekebayev, deputy head of the interim government said Monday at the National Conference “Women political participation in constitutional reform and parliamentary elections”.
