Youth participation in national parliaments: 2018
Promoting the participation of young people in political life is becoming a higher priority worldwide.
Parliaments & Representatives
Women make up only 23.5% of Members of Parliament according to the latest available data of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. While significant strides in women’s political participation have been made since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995, which set Member States’ target of achieving gender balance in political decision-making, women are still underrepresented in political decision-making at all levels and gender balance remains an aspirational goal. Gains in women’s participation have been notable in countries that have taken proactive steps to support women’s political participation, including reforming or amending discriminatory laws, taking concrete action to address violence against women in politics and gender discrimination within parliaments, addressing gender-specific barriers, and supporting women in all forms of decision-making including at local level and in executive government.
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Canada should elect a gender-balanced Parliament in 2019
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December 14, 2018
Fawzia Zainal elected first woman Speaker of Bahraini parliament
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Iceland scandal over MPs' crude and sexist bar talk
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December 3, 2018
Record number of Bahraini women elected to parliament
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#NotInMyParliament: Council of Europe
This is a video by the Council of Europe.