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Gender-Responsive Assemblies – An agenda for concrete action

As #Metoo snowballs into a global movement, there is a growing awareness of the importance of gender parity in all human activities.

September 26, 2018

John McDonnell: I hope Labour's next leader will be female

John McDonnell said he wanted a woman to become the next leader of the Labour party, a day after senior party figures were accused of failing to take allegations of sexual harassment seriously enough.

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UNGA 2018: African Women Leaders Network High-Level Side Event

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UNGA 2018: African Women Leaders Network High-Level Side Event

The central question of the High-Level Event is “How Can Women Leaders Make the AU and the UN More Relevant to All for Transformative Change?

PEW Research Center: Women and Leadership 2018

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September 25, 2018

PEW Research Center: Women and Leadership 2018

By Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Ruth Igielnik and Kim Parker

Is the record number of women candidates a 2018 blip — or a lasting trend?

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September 25, 2018

Is the record number of women candidates a 2018 blip — or a lasting trend?

Lauren Underwood, Democratic House candidate in Illinois' 14th district, is part of a record boom of women running for office in 2018 – from Congress to governorships to state legislatures across the country.

Women and political empowerment in Nigeria

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September 25, 2018

Women and political empowerment in Nigeria

By Davidson Aminu,

SIMA RAMA's Impact Talk on women's leadership during 2012 Marikana massacre in South Africa

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September 25, 2018

SIMA RAMA's Impact Talk on women's leadership during 2012 Marikana massacre in South Africa

In a deeply personal journey, Strike a rock follows Primrose Sonti and Thumeka Magwangqana, two grandmothers and best-friends living in Nkaneng, Marikana, an informal-settlement in rural South-Africa that sprung up around a mine oper

September 24, 2018

Vietnam has first female president, but activists are unimpressed

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vietnam’s appointment of its first female president belies a deep gender imbalance in the communist country’s politics and society and will do little to improve women’s rights, advocates said on Monday.

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September 20, 2018

Women still a rare part of world's parliaments

AS MEXICO’S NATIONAL congress assembled this past weekend, women occupied 47.8 percent of the seats in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, and 49.2 percent of the seats in the Senate.

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