Capacity Building

An entrepreneur who turned to politics, Falguni Rajput, 39, felt she wasn’t getting anywhere despite spending five years as a treasurer in the women’s wing of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Vasai-Virar, Maharashtra.

A four-day capacity building workshop organized for aspiring female parliamentary candidates in the country opened at Akosombo on Wednesday.

US Department of State's Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women Issues Melanne Verveer will launch Grassroots Women's Political Leadership Forum: South Asia Regional Women's Political Leadership Summit at the Asian University of Women in Chittagong on Sept 9.

Parliament and the Women's University in Africa yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which the institution will offer various educational programmes to parliamentarians and staff.

The two-day regional conference on human rights instruments, international labor standards, and women migrant workers' rights was held here on Tuesday, aiming at ensuring the protection of women migrant workers and to guarantee their access to justice, according a joint media release on Tuesday.

A workshop to empower women on issues of democracy, governance and elections starts tomorrow at the National Parliament.

The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) has launched a program to train women to spearhead citizenship education towards the promotion of peace, transparency and credibility of the December elections.