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October 15, 2014
27-Year-Old Muslim Woman Becomes Sweden’s New Education Minister

A 27-year-old Bosnian Muslim immigrant has been named the new Swedish minister of education, setting a role model for young, active Muslims.

October 10, 2014
VACANCY: Programme Officer, Electoral Processes
Quotas for female politicians, elections in Brazil
October 9, 2014
Do Quotas for Female Politicians Work?

Photo-Paulo Whitaker/Reuters

October 8, 2014
Iraqi Yazidi woman MP awarded Anna Politkovskaya prize

raqi legislator Vian Dakhil on Monday received the Anna Politkovskaya prize for her denunciation of the jihadist group Islamic State over its brutal treatment of Yazidi women.

Dilma Rousseff
October 5, 2014
Brazil election: Dilma Rousseff to face Aecio Neves in run-off

Brazil's presidential race will go to a second r

Yuko Obuchi
October 1, 2014
Japan's Obuchi - Political 'princess' could be first female PM

Photo-Ruters/Yya/Shino/Files

Diana Hwang
September 30, 2014
Power of Ideas: Diana Hwang, Founder of the Asian-American Women’s Political Initiative

Photo-Toan Trinh

September 30, 2014
Tunisia’s 2014 Parliamentary Elections: A Human Rights Agenda

Tunisian laws protect women’s equality more than the laws of most other countries of the Arab world.

September 30, 2014
An insight into Malaysia’s Women Parliamentary Caucus

Women’s inclusion in the present cabinet membership is at 6.7%; only two out of 30 ministers are f