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Women Must Be Involved and Funded in Post-Crisis Responses“Women are not heard, not respected and not funded,” said Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, at the UNDP/UNIFEM panel discussion, “The Price of Peace: Financing Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction.” Robins
New York/Geneva, 3 March 2010 - No. 336Taking stock of women’s political participation today gives cause for guarded satisfaction. Fifteen years after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, overall improvements have been registered in parliamentary and executive spheres of government.
Regional perspectives in progress achieved and remaining gaps and challenges in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action On Thursday, representatives of the UN’s five regional commissions presented regional perspectives in progress achieved and remaining gaps and challenges in the i
The new decade begins with the election of another woman president. Laura Chinchilla, candidate for the Partido Liberación Nacional, won the presidential race in Costa Rica with 46.8 percent of the vote.
Women in the Asia Pacific region have the lowest rates of representation in politics, employment and property ownership, a new report presented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has revealed.The Asia Pacific Human Development report on gender, which was made public on the occasio
To better clarify the conceptual linkages and potential programmatic synergies between electoral assistance and parliamentary development, UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group requires the services of a consultant to develop a Concept Note that builds on the backgrounder prepared by the UNDP Brusse
Vice President of National Parliament and President of the GMPTL Maria Paixão joined dignitaries including President of the Republic Jose Ramos Horta and President of Parliament Fernando Lasama in celebrating the National Electoral Commission (CNE) third anniversary.Deputada Paixão addressed the
More than five hundred women leaders from five continents participated in the Fifth Meeting of Spanish and African Women for a Better World, hosted by the Government of Spain in Valencia on 27-28 March, with support from UNIFEM.
In Bangladesh, traditional gender roles keep most women from gaining political power.