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Volunteer recruitment can be a powerful tool for creating citizen-centred approaches and for getting individuals involved in the mission and work of the campaign. As many organizations rely on volunteers to contribute to advocacy, mobilizing grassroots volunteers and recruiting individuals who are dedicated to the issue will extend the reach of the campaign and further enable its activities.

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Volunteer Recruitment

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2007-02-16 15:15

Voter outreach must be a focal point of any campaign, as ensuring voter turnout requires persuasion. Important components of voter outreach include: Raising issues of concern; educating voters on such issues and a candidate’s overall platform; registering voters and mobilizing them to vote for a candidate or an issue.


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Cambodia: Crusader Rowing Upstream in Cambodia

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-03 12:24
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Ms. Mu Sochua is a member of a new generation of women who are working their way into the political systems of countries across Asia and elsewhere, from local councils to national assemblies and cabinet positions.

A former minister of women’s affairs, she did as much as anyone to put women’s issues on the agenda of Cambodia as it emerged in the 1990s from decades of war and mass killings. But she lost her public platform in 2004 when she broke with the government, and she is now finding it as difficult to promote her ideas as it is to simply gain attention as a candidate.

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To read the complete story please visit NY Times.


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Iraq: Women take prominent role in Iraqi vote

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-03 09:27
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"The quota was very important in the previous elections because we live in a male-dominated society and the quota was necessary to give women a chance to have a political role," al-Douri told The Associated Press at the offices of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite slum of Sadr City, where the prayers were held last week.

"But in the future this quota should be removed and women should compete equally with men, because women politicians have proven their competence and reliability in politics," said al-Douri, who is running for a second term on the slate of al-Sadr's party.

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To read the complete story please visit Associated Press.


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Mauritius: Plea for More Female Candidates

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-02-22 17:27
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After long days of intense canvassing; of lobbying ministers and neglecting her family and children, Boygah thought she would be nominated for the post of chairperson of the Pamplemousses/Rivière du Rempart District Council, in northern Mauritius. "Unfortunately, when the time came the party preferred a man. I was really hurt," she recalled.

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To read the complete story please visit IPS News.


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Nigeria: Women need co-operation to do better in politics – Dukku

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-02-16 10:21
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Minister of State for Education, Hajiya Aishatu Jibril Dukku who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Bayero Universityia a professional educationist. "I believe gradually even for the elective posts that women are gradually coming up, we only need to showcase ourselves better. We also need to cooperate so that we justify the saying that whatever a man can do a woman can do even better. We need the support of the men, we need to be more confident and we need to show that we are better managers of anything be at an organization or in the private or public sector."

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To read the complete news story please visit Daily Sun.


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Submitted by kpompi on Fri, 2010-01-08 09:03

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India: Women Chiefs Change Indian Villages

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2009-12-22 20:19
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Sunita was chosen as part of a seven-member village committee to look into the water crisis before she became the sarpanch. Under the 'Jal Swarajya Prakalp', a government aided project, she worked closely with officials from the district and water supply department and undertook projects including conservation, laying of water pipelines and desilting water bodies that was implemented by the villagers who worked for free.

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Indonesia: Clean Sweep for Women in West Kalimantan

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2009-12-07 23:21
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Women legislative candidates added life to the Kartini Day celebrations in West Kalimantan on Tuesday with a possible unprecedented clean sweep of Regional Representative Council (DPD) seats.
Maria Goreti, Sri Kadarwati Aswin, Erma Suryani Ranik and Hairiah took unassailable leads in the 26-candidate race and look certain to win the four DPD legislative seats.

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To read the complete news story please visit The Jakarta Post website.


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Submitted by micah on Fri, 2009-11-20 01:32

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Gender, Media and the Public Sphere

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2009-10-06 08:02
2009-10-22
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Coimbra, Portugal
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Portugal
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Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – Departamento de Química
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The Institute of Journalism Studies of The University of Coimbra (IEJ) and the Research Center for Media and Journalism (CIMJ) are pleased to announce the international conference «gender, media and public sphere» on the 22 and 23rd of October 2009 in Coimbra, Portugal. Welcome to the Conference which we hope will be enjoyable and thought provoking.

Gender equality is a human rights issue and a condition of social justice. Claims involving equality between women and men in all areas of life are best advanced in the public sphere, where they are subject to information and debate, allowing women and men to express their needs and establish an informed opinion, contributing to a more gender-balanced society.

Of the different institutions that constitute this public sphere, the media have possibly the most basic function. The media must therefore be approached as key elements in the social construction of political public opinion and as central institutions of the public sphere, fulfilling an ideal role in the democratization of collective life in general and in the promotion of equality in particular. The media play a vital role in the mediation of the different activities and discursive arenas that make up the public sphere, namely between civil society, political rulers and citizens. They can also play a very significant role in establishing a social and political awareness of gender inequalities that need to be adressed, as well as in the empowerment of individuals and organizations with that mission. Media, however, do not simply convey the issues and claims put forward by other actors of collective life. Rather, they speak in their own voice, clearly influencing the public agenda. On the other hand, the media’s dystopic logics – as often seen in their discursive and image constructions of women and gender inequalities, in their power to render visible and invisible certain people and issues, and in their ability to enact unequal interactions – have become areas of concern that need to be researched.

The Conference aims to be a significant gathering point for researchers, organizations, media professionals, government agencies, and students, to discuss these and other issues relating to the mediation of gender.

For all other details please visit the Conference website.


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