Even knowing this, women are many times left out during negotiations. The truth is that conflict knows no gender. Such as peace should no gender. Women are impacted by conflict in different ways than their male counterparts. Sex slavery impacts women as an incomegenerating business. Women need to be able to play a major role in addressing this and finding solutions to combat it. Women control large segments of the economy. Women are the sole income earners in onethird of all households worldwide while their husbands are soldiers, they are running the markets and schools and public institutions. And running the local economy and have a voice in community discussions. Their understanding can prove invaluable when mitigating conflict and building peace where increased instability, we must make sure that the work we are doing produces lasting results. Im confident the woman peace and security act and the accountability it provides will help produce sustainable outcomes for americans and al
That. Woodruff then, where past meets present what learning about the slaves on the plantation of a founding father can teach us about issues of race before the United States today. Its really easy to talk about things 200 years ago, its a lot more difficult when you bring it all the way up today, and you go no, the legacy of slavery is still with us. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. W
That. Woodruff then, where past meets present what learning about the slaves on the plantation of a founding father can teach us about issues of race before the United States today. Its really easy to talk about things 200 years ago, its a lot more difficult when you bring it all the way up today, and you go no, the legacy of slavery is still with us. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. W
Plus 106yearold woman who returned a visit to the white house into a dance party. Ill be here with the days sport including chelsea are in the quarter finals of the cup as they maintain their unbeaten run in the competition. Officers have taken uganda main Opposition Leader from his home and holding him at a nearby Police Station and he was detained as he tried to leave his house today where he has been held under house arrest since saturday and he disputes the results of ugandas president ial elections and has been detained onandoff in the past week and we are live in campala and police are talking about this and what are the details, do we know malcolm . Reporter well the Commanding Officer at this Police Station where he is held has come out and given a briefing to journalists who are outside and has intelligence he was planning to mobilize protesters to come into campala and disrupt the city protesting against the Election Results and says this is something that should be pursued w
The u. S. State Department Says north korea proposed holding peace talks to formally end the korean war sometime before its Fourth Nuclear test in january. But both sides failed to agree on conditions for the meeting. Spokesperson john kirby said on sunday that the Obama Administration considered pyongyangs proposal. He said the administration asked north korea to include denuclearization as part of the talks, but the country rejected it. Kirby did not say exactly when north korea made the proposal. Pyongyang has repeatedly asked washington to end what it calls a hostile policy towards it. The u. S. Position is that it will not start any dialog unless north korea takes concrete action towards denuclearization. The fighting in the korean war ended in 1953, with an armistice instead of a peace treaty. Experts on north korea are analyzing pyongyangs intentions. The professor is from the university of shizuoka, and he says after obtaining nuclear capability, they were trying to maintain st