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April 15, 2013
128th IPU Assembly STATEMENT ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

IPU unanimously endorsed a statement on sexual violence at its 128th Assembly to signal its on-going commitment to tackling this scourge. Recent widely-reported cases have highlighted the urgency of taking -action. The statement was read out by Mr. F.

April 11, 2013
A personal experience of CSW57

Article by Alice Fookes, UK National Committee’s Education Programme Coordinator on her experience of the 57th session of the CSW.

April 11, 2013
Project launched to promote voter awareness, Pakistan

In collaboration with the UNDP, UNWomen, Australian Aid and Norwegian Embassy, the National Rural Development Programme launched project which aimed at providing advance education to 250,000 voters in Sindh especially the marginalised voters, including women, youths and minoriti

April 8, 2013
UN calls for accelerated action with 1,000 days to go on Millennium Development Goals

People around the world invited to join in boosting momentum for most successful global anti-poverty push in history

April 1, 2013
UNDP tasks stakeholders on gender-balanced election in 2015, Nigeria

Ahead of the 2015 polls in Nigeria the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Democratic Governance for Development (DGD) held a five-day training of not fewer than 40 civil society organisations across the country, on the BRIDGE (Building Resources in Governance and Elec

March 28, 2013
Record Number of Women MPs Attend 128th IPU Assembly

A record number of women MPs attended the 128th IPU Assembly in Quito, Ecuador, breaking the 200 mark for the first time ever. The 210 women MPs at the Assembly represented 33 per cent of all MPs attending.

March 28, 2013
IPU Assembly a Huge Learning Experience For First Saudi Women in Shura Council

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.

March 27, 2013
UNWomen & UNDP: Women's Situation Room: A unique type of response mechanism in elections, Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya26 March 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - The women's movement in 

March 27, 2013
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) Quito, Ecuador, 26 March 2013

Remarks by Rebeca Grynspan

UN Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator