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April 12, 2016
Women's political empowerment and American presidential elections discussed in The New Yorker

Dr. Jill Lepore, Professor of American History at Harvard University, has published an article in The New Yorker, entitled ‘The Sovereignty of Women’.

April 12, 2016
IPI Interviews South Sudan's MP, Hon. Betty Ogwaro, on the difficult situation for women in her country

The International Peace Institute (IPI) has interviewed Hon. Dr betty Achan Ogwaro, parliamentarian in the government of South Sudan.

April 12, 2016
Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW)

In order to strengthen the lobby and advocacy ca

April 8, 2016
Protests spread all over the world to condemn the murder of Berta Cáceres

After the dreadful murder of Honduran human rights activist and environmental defender, Berta Cáceres, many women organizations have organized p

April 8, 2016
European Women's Lobby joins Women Refugee Commission to raise awareness on the situation of women refugees

The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) and the Women Refugee Commission (WRC) have decided to work together to raise awareness on the situation of wom

April 7, 2016
Swiss youth calls for a National Youth Parliament

The annual general meeting of the S

April 6, 2016
Gains for women in Viet Nam's National Assembly

The past week marked positive chang

April 5, 2016
Jamaica to introduce legislated gender quotas

Within the national action plan for

April 5, 2016
A Solidarity Statement from the Egyptian Feminist Organizations Coalition with Nazra for Feminist Studies