Elections
Journalist Ali Vitali covered female presidential candidates in 2020. Now she reflects on what got in their way.
As coverage of the 2022 midterms continues, NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali is ready to see more women running for office and watch how candidates are going to address women’s issues, including childcare and access to abortion.
During the 2020 election cycle, Vitali was on the campaign trail covering candidates like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. It seemed like a remarkable year, one in which a woman finally had a chance to be elected as the president of the United States.
Click here to read the full article published by Poynter on 22 August 2022.
On 18 July the IPU Gender Partnership Group and the National Assembly of Nigeria held an online briefing on women’s political empowerment to promote women’s participation in parliament in view of the 2023 Nigerian elections. There were 20 participants, including men and women MPs from Nigeria, Benin, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan, representatives from the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), civil society, government, academia and the electoral commission.
The IPU has supported the Nigerian National Assembly in the area of gender equality and women’s political participation since 2020. After the 2019 legislative elections, the Nigerian Senate elected 8 women (7.34%) out of 109 members and the House of Representatives elected only 13 women (3.61%) out of 360 members. These figures fall well below the global average of 26.1% of women in parliament, and the objective of gender parity.
Click here to read the full article published by The Inter-Parliamentary Union on 2 August 2022.
Parliamentarians draw attention to messages with insults and death threats.
With the first round of the presidential elections on Oct. 2 approaching, cisgender, transgender, and travestis in women involved in Brazilian politics have been denouncing on their social media episodes of gender political violence, considered now an electoral crime in Brazil.
Messages of sexist, racist, and even Nazi-inspired references are among the threats that have reached councilwomen and congresswomen. The women have common affiliations to leftist or center-left parties and the shared defense of agendas linked to diversity and the fight against inequalities.
Click here to read the full article published by Global Voices on 3 October 2022.
The results of the 2022 Papua New Guinea elections confirm that women will once again sit in PNG’s Parliament — after a hiatus of five years.
The 2022 elections were therefore not exactly a repeat of the 2017 elections for women candidates, but much more work is needed if significant numbers of women are to be elected.
The two new women MPs are Rufina Peter, who won the governorship of Central Province as an endorsed candidate of the People’s National Congress, and Kessy Sawang, who won the Rai Coast Open seat as an endorsed candidate of the People First Party.
Click here to read the full article published by Asia Pacific Report on 23 August 2022.
The leader of the Italian extreme right, Giorgia Meloni, is the great favorite to win the legislative elections in September, according to the latest polls. If the trend continues, Meloni could become the first woman in charge of the head of government.
“I am not afraid, but is this nation prepared to ask itself about the reasons why the Brothers of Italy party is spoken of every day as if it were monstrous in the newspapers, while it is estimated that it has the consensus of 25% of the Italians?” he said during a nearly hour-long speech in which he lambasted the European Union, globalization, covid restrictions and migration.
Click here to read the full article published by Paudal on 24 August 2022.
Stakeholders in the electoral process in Nigeria, including the United States-based National Democratic Institute have expressed concern over the exclusion of women as running mates in the presidential primaries for the 2023 elections.
They, therefore, emphasised the need for the media to beam attention on the marginalisation of women in the last presidential primaries by political parties.
These recommendations were among the highlights of a communique issued at the end of a two-day media training which held early August in Calabar for 25 journalists on gender reporting, with the theme: ‘Preparing journalists to promote women political participation: Training on gender-sensitive reporting in Nigeria.’
Click here to read the full article published by Punch on 7 August 2022.