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Actor and politician Kamal Haasan on Sunday encouraged more women to join politics.

Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a Feminist Foreign Policy handbook outlining guidelines on how to define women’s rights and make policy around them.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister and new mom Jacinda Ardern gets on with work, the CEO of Citigroup Latin America could be a contender for the top job, an Iranian photojournalist gets the shot despite being banned, an Australian senator sues her colleagu

Souad Abderrahim is not like the past 32 mayors of this North African capital. They hailed from wealthy, influential families. She’s a self-made businesswoman. They were political appointees.

A number of organisations representing the interests of women have gathered in Parliament on Monday for a Women’s Charter Review Conference.

Human rights activists are campaigning to save the life of the first woman in Saudi Arabia to be sentenced to death over her political activism. 

Mysuru: Pointing out that representation of women in India was worse than that of Pakistana and Nepal, retired professor of political science at the University of Mysore (UoM) Prof.

Women are not just running for office in record numbers this year — they are winning.

Last week, the new President of Colombia, Iván Duque, swore in his vice president, Marta Lucía Ramírez.

She is Colombia’s first female vice president.