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Women's Leadership

April 25, 2014
Jump to Content Inonge advises political parties to engage women, Zambia

GENDER minister Inonge Wina says the government is committed to increasing women participation in politics and decision-making positions.

April 25, 2014
Morocco, UN Women Sign Partnership Agreement to Promote Gender Equality

The Ministry of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social Development, and UN Women signed, Wednesday in Rabat, a partnership agreement to promote the institutionalization of the principles of gender equality in the public policy making process in Morocco.

April 24, 2014
Woman breaks taboos, announces candidacy, Lebanon

Nadine Moussa, Lebanon’s first female candidate for the presidency, insists that Lebanon needs a “new social contract,” with women holding half of all parliamentary and governmental posts.

April 23, 2014
African Women Convene to Deliberate and Strategize on Political Leadership

African women from 15 countries across the continent gathered in Nairobi, Kenya from April 23rd to the 24th to deliberate and strategize on women's political leadership in Africa.

April 22, 2014
CAR President Catherine Samba-Panza inspires Congolese women politicians

In Sub-Saharan Africa, where women hold just 23 percent of the seats in national parliaments and there are only three women heads of state, Catherine Samba-Panza, president of the Central African Republic (CAR), is an inspirational figure.

April 22, 2014
Is India on the cusp of a gender revolution?

In late March, Raveela Gangula rallied a dozen women to stop a drunken man from savagely beating his wife in Muthangi, a village in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Although they restrained him and called the police, he was released that evening without charges.