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Stepping up international cooperation to reduce the risk of exposure to toxic and hazardous chemicals for the world’s poorest communities is the focus of an inter-agency meeting which begins in New York today.

Justice will be delivered globally only when individual governments themselves shoulder responsibility for dealing with crimes and atrocities, UN Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark said in The Hague today.

“Look here, Peace is in my hands. Peace is in our hands,” said Ms. Maude Peacock, President of the national umbrella organization Women’s Forum Sierra Leone (WFSL). “The benefit of peace far outweighs the benefit of war, I can assure you.”

UNDEF supports projects that advance greater participation of women in democratic processes, including for those that strengthen the voices of civil society, promote human rights and encourage the participation of all groups in democracy

In her face and her tone, Mayerlis Angarita projects that infectious joy that is typical of the inhabitants of the savannahs adjoining the Caribbean Sea in Colombia, but her voice cracks as she recalls the tough times that her community, her family and she herself had to endure.