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Launch Event at CSW 62: A Practitioner’s Toolkit on Women’s Access to Justice Programming

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Launch Event at CSW 62: A Practitioner’s Toolkit on Women’s Access to Justice Programming

Under the priority theme: “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls,” the sixty-second session of the Commission on t

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High Level Side Event at CSW 62 on Advancing Gender-equal Nationality Rights

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High Level Side Event at CSW 62 on Advancing Gender-equal Nationality Rights

Over 50 countries maintain nationality laws that discriminate on the basis of gender, denying women the right to confer nationality on their children

Interviews

February 15, 2018
Five reforms still needed to ensure women are fairly represented in politics

The Representation of the People Act 1918 was undoubtedly a significant step forward for women’s rights and democracy.

January 2, 2018
Push for more women MPs stymied in Malawi

BLANTYRE, MALAWI — In Malawi, the push for more women members of parliament was dealt a blow when the government said it would not consider a proposal to create 28 automatic seats for women.

September 12, 2017
Chile’s president is a woman — and she just scored a major policy victory for women. Here’s why that matters.

Latin America has some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws.

September 8, 2017
Proposals to increase number of female MPs in Commons rejected

The government has rejected all six proposals to give parliament more equal female

August 21, 2017
Papua New Guinea PM wants to push for more women MPs

Papua New Guinea's prime mi