Elections
Zimbabwe’s recent election has exposed weak gender policies both at the political party and governmental levels as women were sidelined despite the fact that they make up more than half of the 6.5 million electorate.
Zimbabwe held its presidential, parliamentary and local municipality elections on August 23 and 24.
Only 22 women were elected for the 210 National Assembly seats out of the 70 women contested against 637 male candidates, according to the Election Resource Centre.
Click here to read the full article published by Africa on 6 November 2023.
Herald on Sunday research shows that despite promises to act from most parties, just a third of all the candidates selected to fight the next general election are women.
The SNP has selected substantially more candidates than any other party, with 53 of the 57 they will need for the vote in place. Of those 35 are men, around 66%.
Meanwhile, 15 of the 26 candidates selected by Labour are men, 58%, while just four of the 17 Tories are women, 24%.
Click here to read the full article published by The Herald on 5 November 2023.
The Election Commission of Pakistan has launched a media awareness drive among people with the overarching goal of motivating their active involvement in the electoral process, uplifting 49% of women population participation and increasing voter turnout during the forthcoming elections.
The spokesperson for the Election Commission of Pakistan, Haroon Shinwari talking to PTV news channel said that the ECP has been diligently working to engage youth, transgender, women, elderly population and people with disabilities in the electoral process.
Click here to read the full article published by the Pakistan Observer on 3 November 2023.
The Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq, issued on Wednesday a royal decree appointing members of the State Council, the second legislative chamber. The council consists of 86 members, including 18 women.
The Sultan also issued a decree appointing 14 members, including three women, to the Omani Human Rights Commission.
Sultan Haitham bin Tariq also invited the Shura Council to hold its first extraordinary session, on Thursday, Nov. 9, to elect a president and two vice-presidents for the tenth term (2023-2027).
Click here to read the full article published by Asharq Al-Awsat on 2 November 2023.
The Shura Council elections in the Sultanate of Oman witnessed a significant change in the representatives of the Council for the tenth term, while women suffered a resounding loss, as no female candidate was able to win membership in the 90-member Council.
In remarks to Asharq Al-Awsat, Talal Al-Saadi, Secretary of the Electoral Commission, said that the voting turnout reached 65.88 percent and varied according to the governorates.
This is the second highest participation in elections in the Sultanate of Oman, after the Shura Council elections in 2011, which witnessed a record turnout of 76 percent.
Click here to read the full article published by Asharq Al-Awsat on 3 November 2023.
56 non-governmental organizations and individuals from academia have signed an open letter addressed to the Romanian Parliament expressing their support for the introduction of gender quotas on candidate lists for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
“In the 2020 and 2016 elections, the percentage of women among the total number of candidates was very close to 30%. However, as they were not placed in eligible positions, the percentage of elected women was below 20%. Romania is last in terms of gender equality, according to the most recent report from the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), and second to last in terms of women's political power.
Click here to read the full article published by the Romania Insider on 27 October 2023.