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Pakistan: ‘Women should be part of decision-making process’

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-07-29 04:22
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Reforms in the electoral process and within political parties are needed to ensure effective role of women in policy making, the participants urged at a policy dialogue organised by National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) on political participation of women under the Political Parties Order (PPO)-2002 and the local government system on Tuesday.

The dialogue was a part of its exercise in all the provinces prior to a national conference for formulating final recommendations.

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For more information, please visit The Daily Times.


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Solomon Islands: Forum Help to Advocate for Women in Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-07-29 02:45
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Promoting women into leadership does not mean women are taking over men's role.

This was the response of Ms. Val Stanley, UNIFEM facilitator during a media forum organized by UNIFEM yesterday.

The Media Forum on 'The Role of Women in Maintaining Political Balance' was aimed at highlighting the importance of women in politics. With a significant number of women standing for the 2010 National Election, the event was organized to provide an opportunity to hear how women in politics can make a real difference.

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For more information, please visit The Solomon Times.


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Solomon Islands: Disappointment at low numbers of women contesting Solomons’ election

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-07-21 09:23
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The only woman ever to be elected to Parliament in Solomon Islands says its disappointing more women won’t be running in next month’s election. The Solomon Islands Electoral Commission believes 23 of the 509 candidates standing in the August 4 election are women, down slighty from the 26 who stood in the 2006 election. Hilda Kari, who’s also a former president of the National Council of Women, says that falls short of her goal of having a woman standing in each of the 50 constituencies.

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To read the complete news please visit Radio New Zealand International.


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Afghanistan: Afghan peace process must be conducted in inclusive manner

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-07-21 09:09
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Calling upon the international community to reflect on its past experiences in negotiating with fundamentalist and extremist organisations, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said in Kabul on Tuesday that the peace process in Afghanistan must be conducted in an inclusive and transparent manner. The international community must ensure that adequate capacity of the Afghan security forces and other Afghan institutions must be the sine qua non for protecting Afghanistan's sovereignty, plurality and democracy.

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To read the complete news please visit The Hindu.


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Third International Conference on Women’s Safety: Building Inclusive Cities

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-07-06 12:14
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The Third International Conference on Women’s Safety: Building Inclusive Cities will be held at the India Habitat Centre. To read further please click here.

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This event will bring together international actors in the field of women’s safety for exchange and debate on key topics in current practice. A variety of sessions, including keynote presentations, skills-building workshops, panel presentations, and collective visioning exercises will maximize opportunities for knowledge-sharing, capacity-building and networking. This conference will build on the successes of its predecessors, the First International Seminar on Women's Safety, held in 2002, and the Second International Conference on Safer Cities for Women and Girls held in 2004, while striving to address current issues such as rapid urban population growth and its effect on socially excluded groups.

The Third International Conference on Women’s Safety is an important opportunity for representatives from women’s and community organizations, municipal and national governments, UN agencies, grassroots women, researchers, experts, and academics to work together and build upon the global movement towards the creation of safer and more gender-inclusive cities and communities. UN-Habitat, the Huairou Commission, UNIFEM and Red Mujer y Habitat de America Latina are supporting partners for this conference.

Objectives

The objectives of the Third International Women’s Safety Conference are:

  • to review, analyze and consolidate different approaches/tools aimed at building safe and inclusive cities free of violence against women, 
  • to build strong capacity within local-level civil society in order to mobilize community-wide support for action towards building safe and inclusive cities free of violence against women,
  • to assess and disseminate lessons learned and good practices developed on enhancing women’s inclusion and right to the city.

Topics

  • Urban Planning and Design
  • Women’s Safety and the City       
  • Involving the Most Marginal in the Safe Cities for Women Movement  
  • Policies and Resources
  • Evaluating Safe Cities for Women Initiatives      
  • Women’s Safety and Public Transportation
  • Artistic/creative Expressions of Women’s Safety
  • Inner City Issues Around Women’s Safety
  • Using the Gender Equality and Inclusion Lens
  • Water, Sanitation, and Women’s Safety

For further information, please consult the concept note of the event here.

Send your questions or comments on the conference to conference@femmesetvilles.org.


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A Talk by Professor Ramesh Srinivasan

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-07-06 09:31
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Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore Street:     

No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross,

Domlur 2nd Stage

Bangalore, India

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The Internet, Culture, and Society - Looking at Past, Present, and Future Worldwide

It is now well known that with 4.5 billion mobile phone owners in the world and increased Internet penetration, global cultures and communities have experienced shifts in their economic, political, and social well-being due to the digital revolution. As a scholar and consultant who works worldwide, Prof Ramesh Srinivasan will illustrate how new media technologies have been used creatively to enable political movements in Kyrgyzstan, literacy and educational reform in India, and economic development across the developing world. In addition to this, he will discuss some of digital culture's biggest challenges, including considering how the Web can start to empower different types of cultural perspectives and knowledges. The talk will be live streamed.

Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan

Ramesh Srinivasan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies and Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. He is a hybrid of an engineer, designer, social scientist, and ethnographer. His research and consultancy work focuses on the interaction between new media technologies and global cultures and communities. This involves studying the ways in which information technology shapes global education, health, economics, politics, governance, and social movements. He works in such diverse parts of the world as Kyrgyzstan, India, Native America, and more. Ramesh earned a doctorate in design from Harvard University, a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Laboratory and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

For more information on Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan, please visit http://rameshsrinivasan.org/about/


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Mauritius: Launches women-friendly budget

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-07-06 07:56
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The recently approved national budget on the Indian Ocean island state Mauritius is seen as unique in an African context. It puts women and gender issues right at its centre of focus. Gender activists are thrilled as money finally follows policy statements.

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To read the complete news story please visit afrolnews.com


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Online Discussion: Gender, Education and Employment

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-07-01 22:18
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A podcast featuring experts discussing the theme will launch the online discussion. It will be available here and on UN Radio from 7 July at 10 a.m. (New York time).

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In preparation for the fifty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the Division for the Advancement of Women is organizing an online discussion on the linkages between women’s and girls' access to and participation in formal and non-formal education and training, and their equal access to full employment and decent work. The discussion will contribute to the findings and recommendations presented to the Commission on the Status of Women.

Podcast participants

Carolyn Medel-Añonuevo is the Deputy Director/Senior Programme Coordinator of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, a research institute of UNESCO promoting non-formal education, literacy and adult education in the perspective of lifelong learning. A sociologist coming from the Philippines, she has been working in the field of women's education for the last 25 years.

May Rihani is Senior Vice President of the Academy for Educational Development (AED), a non-profit organization active in more than 150 countries, and Director of the AED Global Learning Group. She is responsible for educational reform programmes in multiple African and Middle Eastern countries, and focuses on ensuring gender equality in AED’s educational projects and social development programmes. She has addressed girls’ education at a large number of international conferences.

Sakena Yacoobi is President and Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an Afghan women-led NGO serving 350,000 women and children each year through its educational learning centers, schools, training and clinics in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ms. Yacoobi is an Ashoka Fellow, has won numerous awards for her international work in peace and human rights and serves on over 15 affiliated group panels and boards.

Registration will be open from 7 July and will be necessary for participants to post comments. Please visit UN.org


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Pakistan: President for protecting democracy, institutions

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-06-30 13:34
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President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday called for protecting democracy and democratic institutions adding that the elected assemblies and the government will complete their five-year mandated tenure regardless of what the opponents are saying and doing. The President said that the government was pursuing a comprehensive programme of politico-economic emancipation and empowerment of the women as per cherished dream of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, who throughout her life fought for this cause.

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To read the complete news story please read Associated Press of Pakistan.


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Australia: Rough side of politics 'keeps women away'

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-06-28 10:01
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The very low level of female representation in local government is possibly due to the ''rough'' and ''confronting'' nature of politics, which does not come naturally to women, the general manager of North Sydney Council says. ''The politics of local government can get very rough, and women may find that very confronting. It's not a woman's natural style of behaviour,'' Ms Holloway said.

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To read the complete news story please visit The Sydney Morning Herald.


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China: Women Struggle for a Foothold in Chinese Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-06-24 10:40
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The day she won election for village head of Gaojie, a hamlet of 1,217 in hilly loess country in northern Shaanxi Province, Bai Yitong was a fresh-faced 19-year-old with scraped-back hair and big, square-rimmed glasses. She is also part of a tiny minority of “just a few percent” of female village heads in China, according to Zou Xiaoqiao, a top official at the All-China Women’s Federation, the Communist Party-led women’s organization.

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To read the complete news story please visit the New York Times.


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India: Government drafts law to end ‘honour’ killings

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-06-23 11:55
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With reports of ‘honour’ killings of young couples and ‘kangaroo’ court rulings on the rise, government on Wednesday said it has drafted a law that will seek to put an end to such ‘extra-judicial’ actions. Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily told reporters here that the Home Ministry has already prepared a Bill aimed at “putting an end” to such crimes being reported from different parts of the country.

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To read the complete news story please visit the Hindu.


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India: Will join politics after women's bill passes

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-06-14 17:24
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Kiran Bedi, a celebrated former police officer, on Monday said she would join active politics after the women's quota becomes law but expressed apprehensions about the bill's passage. "I still adhere to my previous statement that I will start taking part in active politics once the women's reservation bill is passed. But I believe there are very minimal chances that this bill will pass," said Bedi, who was India's first woman Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and has won the Magsaysay Award.

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To read the complete news story please visit Hindustan Times.


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India: Women still get a raw deal in politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-06-03 10:39
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The position of women in politics is quite similar in India and the United States, said ambassador Meryl Frank, deputy US representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, here on Wednesday. Frank was speaking at a workshop ‘Women in Politics in India and the US’ organised by the Centre for Women Studies (CWS), University of Rajasthan.

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To read the complete news story please visit The Times of India.


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Malaysia: Chance for PKR women to prove their mettle in Sarawak

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-06-02 11:26
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PKR women’s wing has so far identified six seats which will be allocated for women at the Sarawak state election. Its chief Zuraidah Kamaruddin said the allocation was in line with PKR’s commitment in ensuring 30% women representation at federal, state and divisional levels of the party.

“We are facing a critical situation as we are still short of qualified women to fill the 30% quota. We will move forward in a cohesive manner," she said. “We want to prepare our women to lead at all levels. The state election will be the beginning. We have identified six seats for our women.“

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To read the complete news story Free Malaysis Today.


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