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The participation of women in the electoral process is key for democracy. The provision of voter education can be an important tool for encouraging women to vote in elections and to assist them in making informed decisions about their vote.

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Philippines: Reproductive Health Tests Candidates’ Political Guts

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-17 20:35
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Filipino voters who have yet to make up their minds about their choice for their next president are being advised: look at each aspirant’s stance on reproductive health to help them gauge the candidate’s leadership mettle and political guts.

A candidate’s position on issues like reproductive health, which has a long history of opposition from the Catholic Church in this mainly Catholic country, reveals clues regarding his or her capacity for governance, says Ramon San Pascual, head of the Philippine Legislative Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD).

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India:DMK to train women cadres in governance

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-03-15 15:06
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As the bill reserving one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies awaits to be passed by parliament, Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party is planning to hold camps across the state to empower its women cadres in governance.

"We plan to train DMK party women in various aspects of governance. We want to groom our party women so that they are ready as and when the 33 percent reservation for women comes into effect," Kanimozhi, party Rajya Sabha member and daughter of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi, said.

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China: Equality for Women Still Far Behind

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-03 20:01
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"Equal rights, equal opportunities, progress for all" is the theme for the celebration of International Women's Day at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday.
"To me, the conference served as a wake-up call. Although many Chinese women had received higher education and become mid-level managers, I was reminded of the challenges we still faced." as Li Xing writes on China Daily.

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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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MENA: Gap Lingers Between Women's Political and Legal Rights

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-03 11:58
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The 591-page study released by Freedom House on Wednesday, supported through grants by the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), contends that while women in the region suffer from greater inequality than women elsewhere, they now enjoy greater economic opportunities, access to education, and increased participation in the political process than in years before.
"There are more women entrepreneurs, more women doctors, more women PhDs, and more women in universities, than ever before," said Jennifer Windsor, executive director of Freedom House. "However, substantial roadblocks remain for women pursuing careers. These findings remind us of the complexities of women's status in the Middle East."

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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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Indonesia: Indonesian Women still Reluctant to Enter Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2010-02-19 03:57
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The percentage of female legislators at the parliament has reached its highest level in history, but many parties, particularly women’s rights activists, have not yet seen any significant changes to the country in terms of gender equality and female empowerment. The newly-inaugurated chairwoman of the Indonesian Parliament Caucus for Women A.P. Andi Timo Pangerang spoke to The Jakarta Post’s Bagus BT Saragih to discuss the issue.

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Asia Pacific: Family Vaults Women to Leadership in Asia

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-02-09 19:50
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More women have reached the pinnacle of power in Asia in recent years than in any other part of the world, and their example has shown that in general, women leaders can be hard to tell from men.Rather than earning their positions independently, almost every one of them has risen to power through a family connection.

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Angola: New MPs engaged in strengthening of democracy

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:04
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The Members of Parliament sworn in on Tuesday, namely Paula Marina Valerio Alho Simons, Maria Mpava Medina and Joaquim Antonio Carlos dos Reis Junior, pledged to contribute to the strengthening of democracy and development of the country. Maria Mpavo Medina, meanwhile, said that she will work to strengthen the role of women in society and should encourage the participation of a greater number of women in political life and contribute to the development of the country.

She promised to continue to develop community work within women and families to improve their living conditions.

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Sri Lanka: Many Sri Lankan Women Cast Votes to Select New President

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-01-26 15:14
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The significance of the voting on Tuesday was that the active participation of women in voting. Females were seen waiting in long queues to cast their votes.

Polling agents said there was a remarkable increase in women coming to cast their votes.

Ramyalatha Perera of Nugegoda, about 20 km away from Colombo, said she wanted to see a brighter future for her children.

"I cast my vote early in the morning. I think we, women want peace. We can not suffer any more and we want our children to live in a peaceful country,"she said.

Ramyalatha had taken her 80-year-old mother, who suffer from arthritis, on a wheelchair with the help of her husband to cast her vote.

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