Twenty women peace leaders met with UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry last week as part of the Open Days on Women and Peace, which have been taking place around the world. UNIFEM Executive Director Inés Alberdi was among the other high-level UN officials who attended the meeting.
The new President of ICJW, Sharon Gustafson, has urged Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appoint at least one woman to any team involved in talks with the Palestinian Authority.
The Taliban care, if the rest of the world does not. For years they have been assiduously attempting to undermine the education of Afghan children, and girls in particular. So far this year alone, 60 schools have been burned or otherwise destroyed in Afghanistan, largely by insurgents, according to the Afghan Ministry of Education.
The security alerts, planning memos and latest news had arrived overnight from colleagues in Kabul, those working in the Afghan women's movement and their expat supporters. I started to sift through the pile and then stopped, frozen.
The July 20, 2010, Kabul Conference, hosted by the Government of Afghanistan and co-chaired by the United Nations, brought more than 70 officials from governments and international organizations around the world together in Kabul for the first time in thirty years.
Secretary Clinton is a forceful and effective champion for women's rights. In the case of Afghanistan, the Secretary is dedicated to ensuring that women's rights will not be negotiated away in the name of peace. As she said in Kabul in July, “If women are silenced or marginalized, prospects for peace and justice will be subverted.”
Acclaimed teacher Cynthia Enloe, Class of 1960, speaks about "Taking Women's Lives Seriously to Tally the Real Costs of the Iraq War." The lecture was delivered June 4, 2010, during Connecticut College's Reunion weekend. Enloe, a professor at Clark University, is the author of 12 books and the recipient of two Fulbright fellowships. She has taught political science and women's studies for more than 30 years.
