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October 31, 2024
Akua Donkor was an inspiring role model for women in politics - Female politicians

Some female politicians in Sunyani have described the late Akua Donkor, the leader and Election 2024 Flagbearer of the Great Freedom Party (GFP)

UN Women
October 28, 2024
In the Ukraine war, women are on the front lines and leading recovery
UN Women
October 28, 2024
Women’s voices rising without fear: our goal and challenge for peace and security

Today, we commemorate the United Nations Day. We are reminded of the UN's noble mission to promote peace, human rights and development for all.

The Nation
October 28, 2024
Women Are Leading the Resistance Against Executions in Iran

Amid Iran’s heightened, unconscionable mass scale of executions and a growing abolitionist campaign of resistance led from within the country’s prisons, Iran’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence for

RTE
October 28, 2024
Election 'golden opportunity' to co-opt women to councils

See Her Elected, an initiative aimed at getting more women from rural Ireland into politics, has said the impending general election is a "golden opportunity" to increase female participation in local councils.

VOX
October 28, 2024
The massive gender gap in the election, in 2 charts
The Mainichi
October 25, 2024
Yoroku: Will Japan's gender equality advance with record number of female candidates?

The city of Shiroi, located in the northwestern part of Chiba Prefecture and known for its sprawling commuter towns, is home to one of the few female-majority local assemblies in Japan. Of the 18 assembly members, 10 are women.

The State Press
October 23, 2024
Women at ASU speak on voting disparities, the gender gap and the fight for women's votes

Over half of Arizona’s voters were women in 2020, according to a CNN exit poll.