News stories by Christine Ahn

NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - A century ago, the suffragist Jane Addams boarded a ship with other American women peace activists to participate in a Congress of Women in The Hague.

HONOLULU, Dic 02 (IPS) - On Nov. 18, a committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted 111 to 19, with 55 abstentions, in favour of drafting a non-binding resolution referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Today millions of women workers from across the globe made history. From June 2011 domestic workers secured the passage of the ILO Convention on domestic work for governments to ratify into law, writes Erika Guevara Rosas, Regional Program Director of the Americas and Christine Ahn, Senior Policy and Research Analyst at the Global Fund for Women.

On April 28, former US President Jimmy Carter and three former European heads of state landed in Seoul after travelling to Pyongyang to help reopen dialogue between the two Koreas. Known as the Elders, they carried this message to the leaders of South Korea and the United States: "Chairman and General Secretary Kim Jong-il said he is willing and the people of North Korea are willing to negotiate with South Korea or with the United States or with the six powers on any subject any time and without any preconditions," writes Christine Ahn, Executive Director of the Korea Policy Institute and a member of the National Campaign to End the Korean War.