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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.

 

November 11, 2015
BRIDGE Project Encourages Women's Voting in Haiti

Sixteen years ago the BRIDGE –Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections– project was initiated.

Women in Egypt
February 22, 2015
Egyptian women take to social media to expose harassers

Egyptian women have been using a number of hashtags — among them #Idon’tFeelSafeOnTheStreet, #AntiHarassment and #ExposeHarasser — on social networking sites to speak up about the daily sexual harassment they experience.

February 3, 2015
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Female President Ghana
October 7, 2014
Female president will solve Ghana’s problems — Dr Baah

The Deputy General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Dr Yaw Baah, has said that the country’s economic problems could be solved when a female is elected as the president.

Feisty, pushy, bossy, fierce,
August 31, 2014
Feisty, flounce and bossy: the words used to put women down

Photo-Andrew Stocks/The Guardian

Do you ever hear men described as ‘hysterical’? Do people say they ‘whine’ or ‘nag’? Thought not. Here are eight sexist words we’d like to never hear from again

Howard Student Association
August 13, 2014
Moments of silence for Michael Brown

Photo-Ikenna Ikeotuonye and the Howard University Student Association.

International Youth Day 2014
August 11, 2014
Shaping the agenda, youth march forward


Photo-UN Women/Marco Dormino