ICTs and Women’s Political Participation

ICTs can be potentially used to foster wider political participation. Look here for inspiration and examples of how women around the world used ICTs to change their societies.

Engendering hate: The contours of state-aligned gendered disinformation online

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November 1, 2020

Engendering hate: The contours of state-aligned gendered disinformation online

Our report, with U.S.-based National Democratic Institute (NDI), outlines a new framework for understanding how disinformation is being used online to exclude women from public life, in the first major study into this threat to democracy.

Working paper: Maternal mortality and women’s political participation

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July 18, 2018

Working paper: Maternal mortality and women’s political participation

Maternal mortality, defined as the death of women within 42 days of childbirth, remains a looming global health problem well into the 21st century.

April 13, 2018

Gambia: Beakanyang trains on women's political participation

Rights advocacy organisation Beakanyang Kafo has trained and sensitised over one hundred women in the Upper and Central River Regions on the importance of political participation.

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April 13, 2018

USA: Female candidates take on taboos in new campaign ads

Women are increasingly spotlighting gender as they run in record-breaking numbers in 2018.

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April 9, 2018

Female candidates take on taboos in new campaign ads

From breastfeeding on camera to sharing intimate stories of sexual abuse, women running for office are turning campaign norms — and long-held gender stereotypes — on their head with a flurry of new ads that highlight once tabo

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