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August 7, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi Visits NDI’s New Parliamentary Research Center in Burma

On August 6, National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited NDI's new Parliamentary Resource Center (PRC) in the capital city of Naypyitaw.

August 7, 2013
Message by UN Women Acting Head on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, UN Women calls for the promotion and protection of the human rights of indigenous women and girls. 

July 29, 2013
UN WOMEN seeking Policy Specialist (Gender Responsive Peacebuilding)
Location : New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Application Deadline : 09-Aug-13
Type of Contract :
July 25, 2013
Malian women press for peaceful, fair elections
July 24, 2013
Beijing at 20: ECOSOC launches review of progress on women’s rights

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has kick-started Beijing+20, a process to assess how far Member States and other stakeholders have come in implementing the commitments made at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995.

July 12, 2013
Journalists seek to avoid gender stereotypes in Burkina Faso

A free press, crucial to any democracy, plays a significant role in shaping public attitudes.  It can reinforce voter stereotypes about certain types of candidates, or it can help dispel the kinds of opinions that for many years in many places have hampered efforts by women to become full pa

July 10, 2013
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka from South Africa appointed as new UN Women Executive Director

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka from South Africa as the new Executive Director of UN Women, the organization leading UN’s work on advancing gender equality and women’s rights.

July 9, 2013
Women in National Parliaments, Classification by IPU

The data been compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by National Parliaments by 1st July 2013.189 countries are classified by descending order of

July 9, 2013
Acting Head of UN Women Lakshmi Puri calls for Egyptian women’s voices to be heard without threat of violence

Egypt’s women have been at the heart of the vibrant civil society movement that continues to press for the rights of all Egyptians.