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

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 ...

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 ...

Government losing hard-won gains on rights for women and girls as aid cuts bite, MPs warn - ‘Gender equality should not ...

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 ...

Building the pipeline for women to ascend into leadership starts early. When former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote her book, "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" in 2013, she started a ...