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This is an event that will be held in Cairo on June 1, 2011 and will be hosted by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance- IDEA, iKnow Politics and Nazra for Feminist Studies.

UN Women observes progress in many areas, including expanding women’s leadership roles and enhancing women’s economic empowerment.

Michelle Bachelet,  the Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) reiterated that economic empowerment of women, political participation, ending gender-based violence and raising women’s involvement in post-conflict peacebuilding are the

In September 2010, UN Women (former Division for the Advancement of Women), in cooperation with ECLAC/Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, organized an expert group meeting in Port-of-Spain, Trindad and Tobago, on good practices in national action plans on violence against women.

Last year’s presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire ended in a violent standoff between the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, and the internationally recognized winner of the vote, Alassane Ouattara.

NDI announced today that it is awarding its 2011 Madeleine K. Albright Grant to Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development (ACT), a women's rights organization from Egypt.

Justice remains out of reach for millions of the world’s women, a flagship report launched today by UN Women warns.

More than 300 Armenian women from different political parties, civic organizations, government agencies and geographic regions came together for a two-day conference in Yerevan last month to discuss policy solutions to the challenges they all face.

WASHINGTON, DC – The National Democratic Institute (NDI) today condemned the assassination attempt against President Alpha Condé of the Republic of Guinea at his residence in Conakry during the early hours of July 19.