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Friday, December 14, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Canada should elect a gender-balanced Parliament in 2019
Maclean's
It was nearly a century ago that Agnes Macphail became the first woman elected to the House of Commons. Her victory in 1921 meant she represented not only the southwestern Ontario riding of Grey South East, but every Canadian woman across the...
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Friday, December 14, 2018
Sisterhood in the halls of Congress, and you’re invited
The New York Times
By Maya Salam, “Speak truth, sis!” — Rashida Tlaib to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both newly elected congresswomen, in a message on Instagram It was not terribly surprising this week when yet another one of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tweets went viral...
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Friday, December 14, 2018
209 Women Exhibition
One hundred years after women first gained the right to sit in Parliament as MPs, the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art will host the ‘209 Women’ exhibition from 14 December 2018 to 14 February 2019. Unveiled in time for the anniversary...
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Friday, December 14, 2018
Enhancing reporting of women in 2019 elections
New Telegraph
The need for the media to be gender sensitive in reporting electoral issues ahead of the 2019 general elections and change the negative stereotyping of female politicians, was the pivot of a one-day seminar held in Lagos by the Independent National...
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Friday, December 14, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Nigerian women in politics: Biases, barriers, solutions
Sahara Reporters
By Vweta Chadwick, During a visit to Nigeria in January this year, the UK special envoy on gender equality, Joanna Roper told journalists 250 million pounds has been earmarked by the British government towards getting more Nigerian women get into...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
DRC Elections—Will Congolese women have a fair chance?
The Global Network of Women Peacebuilders
“The forthcoming elections is a decisive turning point for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), because if we really do have these elections despite the fact that it has long dragged out, it will be the first democratic transition ever in the DRC...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
Let’s talk about money: comparative perspectives on political finance regulations
International IDEA
Money is a necessary component of the democratic process, enabling the expression of political support as well as competition in elections. At the same time, if the funding of political parties and election campaigns are not effectively regulated,...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why Kenyan men don't want to share power with women
BBC
The Kenyan parliament is a tough playground. And just like any other playground, the bigger ones tend to play rough and keep the toys to themselves. The "boys" in parliament have been doing exactly that, by refusing to share their play area and...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Women MPs reveal death threats, bullying and harassment
News Room
Women MPs discuss bullying, harassment and other misconduct during a public panel discussion to mark 125 years of suffrage. Labour’s Ruth Dyson spoke about receiving death threats, as did the Greens’ Golriz Ghahraman, who remembered someone saying...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Why Bangladeshi politics is man's domain
Deutsche Welle
Two powerful women – Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia – have dominated Bangladeshi politics for decades, but the South Asian country's women are still underrepresented in parliament and are politically marginalized. Nazla Ibtesham, an 18-year-old...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Where is the #MeToo moment in India's politics?
Reuters
NEW DELHI(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From media to sports and business, a wave of #MeToo revelations has rocked India this year, but the movement has left the country’s male-dominated politics largely untouched - and that needs to change,...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Kano Emir tasks women to vote for gender sensitive leaders
This Day Live
By Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano, The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has challenged Nigerian women to vote for leaders whose electoral campaign prioritises promotion of women welfare and detest abuse against women in the society. The Emir made...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
What Tunisia can teach the United States about women’s equality
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
By Sarah Yerkes and Shannon Mckeown. An unprecedented number of women—especially women of color—are headed to the U.S. Congress in January. In what has been called another Year of the Woman, a historic 272 out of 964 candidates for Congress and...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
UN Women applauds UAE President’s decision to increase Emirati women’s representation in Federal National Council to 50 per cent
UN Women
UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, has warmly welcomed the directives of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, to raise the representation of Emirati women in the Federal...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Australia: Gillard to the Liberals: here's how you do gender equality
The Sidney Morning Herald
Julia Gillard, former prime minister, first ever woman prime minister of Australia, and member of a party with nearly 50 per cent representation in the parliamentary Labor Party has some advice for the Liberal Party. Not that she’d characterise it...
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Monday, December 10, 2018
India: Enable more women politics first nonpartisan women's convention held in B'luru
The News Minute
The Indian Women’s Caucus had activists and politicians weighing in on what’s stopping women from entering and succeeding in politics. On Saturday, a number of women gathered at Cauvery Hall in Chalukya hotel in Bengaluru. The gathering was a unique...
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Women to have 50% representation in UAE Federal National Council
Gulf News
Abu Dhabi: As per the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Emirati women's representation in the Federal National Council, FNC, will be increased to 50 per cent in the coming parliamentary term. The step...
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Friday, December 07, 2018
Attacks on women's ministries are a threat to democracy
Open Democrazy
By Gillian Kane, In February 2016, a few months after Brazil’s only female president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached, the country’s newly installed interim-government under President Michel Temer issued one of its first directives. With political...
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