Afghanistan's parliament has granted immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of conflict, despite calls by human rights groups for war crimes trials.
This is the second Gender Report Card and its purpose is to assess the implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crimes and in particular the gender mandates they embody.
Women were never simply guests at the negotiating table. The roles they play as combatants, supporters of fighting forces and peacemakers qualify them to sit at the negotiating table and to assume an active role in implementation.
"Mummy, why did you go to Beit Hanoun? Don’t you know that half of the people were killed there?" I replied, "No, half of the people didn't die there." "Do you mean that all the people die there? Don’t you know that you could’ve been killed?"
Women in war and conflict zones more and more are sharing their thoughts on looking at the world in a gender sensitive lens and raising their voice to the atrocities of war and its impact on women and girls.
An article by Luisa Morgantini, Member of the European Parliament on the situation in Palestine demanding that the massacre of the Palestinians stop now.
We, the undersigned Members of the European Parliament, recently returned from a fact finding mission to Israel and Palestine, are shocked and appalled by what we have seen and experienced in Gaza.
