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For the very first time, two women members of the Shura Council formed part of a Saudi Arabian delegation to an IPU Assembly. Dr Lubna Al-Ansary and Dr. Hanan Al-ahmadi attended the IPU’s 128th Assembly in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito this week. They are among the 30 women selected to join the previously all-male council by the Saudi King Abdullah in January 2013, where women now make up 20% of its members.

NAIROBI, Kenya, 26 March 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - The women's movement in Kenya, with support from UN Women and UNDP, set up a unique kind of election observer and response mechanism known as the omen's Situation Room in the just-concluded elections.

Remarks by Rebeca Grynspan

UN Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator

“Applying democratic governance to achieve sustainable human development”

128th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

The IPU Assembly (formerly known as the Inter-Parliamentary Conference) is the principal statutory body that expresses the views of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on political issues.

Michelle Bachelet: “UN Women stands ready to support countries to turn agreement into action”

(New York, 20 March) In the follow-up to the historic global agreement reached at the 57th Commission on the Status of Women to prevent and end violence against women and girls, UN Women today called for action to translate it into reality for women and girls globally.

15 March 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that Michelle Bachelet had informed him of her intention to step down as head of the United Nations entity mandated to promote gender equality.The Secretary-General expressed his “tremendous gratitude for her outstanding service” as the Executive Director of UN Women, an entity created in 2010 to oversee the Organization's programmes aimed

At the conclusion of the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women welcomes the outcome of the meeting. The Agreed Conclusions are a testimony to the commitment of Member States to do the right thing, to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls. In the last two weeks during the meeting in New York, and in the lead-up to this session, we witnessed global engagement and mobilization, high-profile advocacy by civil society, and determined leadership by many Member States.

On the occasion of the anniversary of the International Day to End Violence against Women, NDI launched its program to strengthen the capacity of   legislators and representatives, and help women establish cross-party mechanisms for collaboration, platforms for civil society engagement, and networks of support.

(We invite out users to read the full article published March 9 2013)

The Tanzanian Centre for Democracy – an organization bringing together all political parties to promote multi-party democracy in Tanzania – will conduct an assessment of local democracy later this year from a gender perspective using International IDEA’s State of Local Democracy (SoLD) assessment framework.