The month in women, peace and security: October 2017, Eliza Chapman, Harley Comrie, Jack Viola and Jacqueline Westermann, The strategist, 6 Nov 2017|

News summary regarding women, peace and security around the world in the Australian Strategic Policy Institute report:

• * Call for gender focus for peacekeeping positions.
• * New Women, Peace and Security Index released.
• * Israeli and Palestinian women unite to further the peace agenda.
• * Women in Chinese politics.
• * Women’s rights in West Africa.
• * Gender brief on Rohingya.
• * Road bumps for the AFP’s female-focused recruitment drive.
• * ISIS’s call to arms for women.
• * Boko Haram’s victims speak.
• * female survivors from Kosovo war.

Read the full report and references in The Strategist.