An animated short about a Colombian congresswoman survives seven years of captivity in the jungle.

The barrier that separates Israel and the West Bank also separates many Palestinians from their places of work, their family members, and the checkpoints people must pass through to get from one side to the other have become points of tension. The women of Machsom Watch observe the checkpoints to make sure that the Israeli soldiers guarding them treat the Palestinians trying to pass humanely.

In Spanish they're called the feminicidios. Hundreds, maybe thousands of women have disappeared in and around Juarez, Mexico in a wave of violence that began in the early 1990s. David Rochkind, a photographer based in Mexico, produced this multimedia piece featuring two women from Juarez whose daughters disappeared without a trace.

A look at Afghanistan's need for international support and actions taken by the US to advocate for Afghan women

A look at efforts by women of Afghanistan to participate in government and the peace process

Liberian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee talks about the platform the award has granted her and the difficulty of balancing her global activism with caring for her six children.

South Sudanese women struggle to make their voices heard in the post-war transition.

Colombia has the second largest population of internally displaced people in the world, after Sudan. Here, an indigenous Colombian community makes an annual return to their ancestral land to commemorate a massacre that left 12 dead, 20 missing, and the rest of the community displaced.

An overview of life in Afghanistan during and after Taliban rule and womens efforts to participate in the countrys peace process

When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled follows three women who immediately began to organize to make sure that their rights dont get traded away in the deal. Premieres October 25, 2011

A look at efforts two Afghan women are taking to help others, as well as dangers faced by women in Afghanistan today.

The astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country. Premieres October 18, 2011

Think you know war? Think again. Women, War & Peace, a five-part PBS special, premieres Oct. 11, 2011. The series continues on Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. through Nov. 8.

Matt Damon, narrator of Women, War and Peace Episode 1: I Came To Testify on why the themes of this series matter to men, too.

Think you know war? Think again. Women, War & Peace, a five-part PBS special, premieres Oct. 11, 2011. The series continues on Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. through Nov. 8.

War Redefined, the capstone of Women, War and Peace, challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men's domain through incisive interviews with leading thinkers, Secretaries of State and seasoned survivors of war and peace-making.