Posters with the picture of a young woman wearing a faint smile, and her educational qualifications highlighted in bold red, are plastered across the village of Jheepa in Uttarakhand’s Almora district.
Support is mounting for a proposed legislation that would reserve parliamentary seats for women in Nigeria, as more lawmakers, the UN Development Programme, and activists push for the passage of the reserved seat bill.
BAGHDAD — Iraq has witnessed the establishment of its first women’s political party, named the al-Mawadda Party, in an initiative aimed at unifying the efforts of women from various communities and sects, and enhancing their role in political
South Korea’s gender divide has become a flashpoint in its democratic evolution. Amid economic stagnation and rising disillusionment, young men increasingly view feminist policies as threats to fairness, fuelling anti-feminist populism.
The empowerment of all women and girls was firmly upheld at the 2025 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) – the United Nation’s central platform for reviewing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals – as world leade
The Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) signed a pivotal Joint Declaration today on the sidelines of the High-Level Political F
The Government has announced plans to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote across the UK by the next general election.
By Clarisse Sih and Bibbi Abruzzini
This article by Mia Abeyawardene originally appeared on Groundviews, an award-winning citizen journalism website in Sri Lanka.