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Women are often assaulted and raped in conflict-ridden countries and Women Under Siege is keeping track. As the project grows and spans more and more countries, its founding director stays busy breaking the silence.
The new U.N. point person on sexual violence in armed conflict doesn’t plan to do it on her own. Zainab Bangura, a former health minister from Sierra Leone, is tapping governments to work alongside her nine-person staff.
The U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues was upbeat last week about high-level attention to sexual violence at a U.N. meeting. But Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee was disappointed that African leaders weren’t in the room.
Many women who have been driven from their homes by Colombia’s sprawling, multi-layered conflict don’t intend to use a new law to try to regain their land. Going home still seems too dangerous.
Anita Hill and Liberia’s Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee prevailed in very different historic confrontations. But this week they expressed a similar longing for home. And both were asked about how they’d faced down fear.
An Israeli-Palestinian women’s group that helped pioneer the push for a two-state solution fell apart in late 2010 under pressure of heightened hostilities. Its demise highlights the scarcity of women in peace talks in this conflict and around the world.