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13 Mar 2012 - The UN theme for International Women’s Day 2012, celebrated annually on 8 March, is “Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty.” Here are some of the events that took place during this year’s festivities throughout the world.
 

For the full story, see UN Women.

13 Mar 2012 - There has been growing recognition that good development models are based on evidence and mutual accountability. Yet for years the lack of gender-related statistics has been used as a reason to not take bolder action on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

International IDEA joins the rest of the world in celebrating women on International Women’s Day 2012 with the theme, Making Democracy Deliver on Women’s Empowerment.

For IDEA, women’s empowerment is essential for democracy building and therefore, the question is, is democracy delivering on women’s empowerment? Why must we insist on democracy delivering on women’s empowerment?

15 Mar 2012 - At the United Nations 2005 World Summit, leaders of all nations agreed on two things highly relevant to today's situation in Syria. They reaffirmed democracy as a universal value. And they agreed on the doctrine of responsibility to protect.

16 Mar 2012 -UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet comments on the ending of the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women without agreed conclusions.

During this 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, we have witnessed passionate and dynamic discussion with a very high level of participation from governments and civil society.
 

20 Mar 2012 - When the Kosovar government released its ambassadorial nominations last fall, there was a glaring omission — no women were on the list. A group of women members of parliament (MPs) protested at a news conference, which led the government to increase the number of women nominees to one-third.

For the full story, see NDI.

19 Mar 2012 - On 15 March 2011 a group of children of the sadly now famous city of Deraa, on their way out of school, wrote the first slogans on street walls calling for democracy and change of the authoritarian regime in Syria. That was a symbolic, peaceful and civilized act by very young citizens to echo the astonishing events in Egypt and Tunisia. The security forces reacted immediately through the only way they are used to under an oppressive rule, by arresting those children and subjecting them to brutal and disproportionate torture.

26 Mar 2012 - SEOUL, March 25 - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday met United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, exchanging views on the development of women roles while the latter showed his support on the matter both in Thailand and in the region.

Ms Yingluck told him that the development of women roles is one of her urgent policies, delivered to Parliament when her government took office last year.

For the full news article, see MCOT.

27 Mar 2012 - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) delivered the keynote address at a March 22 luncheon honoring the Women’s Discussion Club of Kyrgyzstan, the 2012 recipient of the Madeleine K. Albright Grant awarded by NDI.

In her address, Wasserman Schultz challenged women to take the lead. “Too often, women don’t speak up,” Wasserman Schultz said. “But women's voices are crucial to democracy.”

For the full story, see NDI.