Elections
Port Moresby (AFP) – Women are fighting to get at least one seat in Papua New Guinea's male-dominated parliament when voting opens Monday in a mountainous, forest-clad land scarred by gender-based violence.
Prime Minister James Marape is fending off a challenge from his predecessor Peter O'Neill to lead this resource-rich but poverty-struck Pacific Island for the next five years.
Whoever wins, the new leader will need to cobble together a coalition government, say analysts.
Women, though, are hoping just to have a voice in the 118-seat parliament.
Click here to read the full article published by France 24 on 1 July 2022.
The 2022 election has seen more women elected to Jersey's government than ever before.
A total of 51% of the newly-elected deputies are women, and women now make up 43% of the overall government.
Carina Alves, Inna Gardiner, Carolyn Labey, Helen Miles and Kristina Moore topped their constituency polls.
Ms Moore, who said she would put herself forward for chief minister, said the increased representation of women in the States was welcomed.
Click here to read the full article published by BBC on 23 June 2022.
TOKYO -- A record 181 of the 545 people standing in Japan's July 10 House of Councillors election are women, comprising 33.2% of all candidates, also a high.
The total of 181 female candidates announced on June 22 was up 77 from the previous upper house contest in 2019. It was the first time for the figure to top the 146 female candidates in the chamber's 1989 election, when the so-called "Madonna boom" led by Takako Doi, then head of the now-defunct Japan Socialist Party, occurred.
Click here to read the full article published by Mainichi on 23 June 2022.
Droupadi Murmu: Here is everything you need to know about BJP's candidate for Presidency.
Droupadi Murmu, a tribal leader from Odisha, was on Tuesday named the ruling NDA’s candidate for the forthcoming Presidential election. The decision was taken at the BJP’s parliamentary board meeting.
Earlier in the day, the Opposition had announced former Union minister Yashwant Sinha as its joint candidate for the post. The poll is slated for July 18.
Click here to read the full article published by The Indian Express on 22 June 2022.
Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for any county or country.
However, according to statistics, women are under-represented at all levels of decision-making worldwide, thus making achieving gender parity in political life a dead dream.
There is growing recognition of the untapped capacity and talents of women and women’s leadership.
This is evident in Busia County where apart from the woman Rep slot only 3 women have dared men in elective slots at national level.
Click here to read the full article published by KBC on 12 June 2022.
As discussion of falsehoods about the 2020 election and their deadly consequences are televised from Capitol Hill, states’ top election officials are grappling with inaccurate information — which can make them targets.
In the spring of 2021, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was in public with staffers following a televised interview when the group spotted a man nearby.
The man, according to Hobbs, began filming and following them. Hobbs’ staff was on high alert: Unbeknownst to the secretary at the time, that day her office had received a threat from an anonymous caller who said Hobbs “deserves to die.” The caller asked what the secretary was wearing to find her more easily.
Click here to read the full article published by The 19th on 13 June 2022.