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Women Speakers of Parliament will identify clear actions to eliminate barriers to women’s political participation, end harassment of female MPs, and promote inclusive parliaments.
This article was published by UNDP on March 8, 2018.
Statement by Senator Gabriela Cuevas Barron, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Beautiful, talented, successful and modest – the women of Turkmenistan achieve outstanding results but rarely talk about it.
Statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women for International Women’s Day
Theme: “The Time is Now: Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women’s Lives”
Unequal political representation of women in relation to men remains a problem all over the world. Just 23 per cent of the world’s members of parliament are women.