The March 26 by elections ended on a high note, amid reports that there were no reported cases of violence at all polling stations across Zimbabwe.

Global trends indicate the slow-paced progress in closing gender gaps across major dimensions of human development in different countries.

This is a House of Commons Committee report, with recommendations to government. The Government has two months to respond.

‘When some women try to get involved in politics, they are despised and as such they are at the defensive. Even their co-women would despise them and refuse to support and vote for them…First, women are not as financially buoyant as the men.

Despite studies showing widespread public acceptance of female politicians in India, women's political participation in the South Asian country remains low.

On 1 March, Libya's Tobruk-based Parliament voted in a new cabinet led by former Interior Minister, Fathi Bashaga, and its 29 ministers, six State Minist