COMMENT: It is getting increasingly hard to square the encouraging rhetoric from the government over the rights of women and ...

Since 2000, 115 governments have made formal commitments to increase women’s participation in mitigating and resolving conflict and reducing violence against women and girls. The U.S. government was ...

Twenty-five years ago, the UN Security Council established the landmark resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), officially recognizing for the first time women’s crucial role in achieving ...

Government cuts to international aid spending means the UK is losing hard-won gains for the rights of women and girls around ...

Aisha Alhassan, said this at the women in peace and security conference organised by UN Women, UNICEF and Norwegian Embassy in Abuja The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Aisha ...

The world stands at a crossroads. Conflicts and violence - from Gaza to Ukraine, from Sudan to Haiti - continue to claim lives needlessly, shattering livelihoods and erasing hard-won gains in peace ...