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June 28, 2013
Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace issues alternate electoral law and demands inclusivness in Constitutional Assembly

June 28, 2013
TURKEY IN TURMOIL: IT’S A WOMEN’S THING

June 28, 2013
Labor Women under attack from the Sisterhood for betraying Julia Gillard, Australia

Women in the Labor caucus have come under fire from the ‘sisterhood’ for siding with the men who brought down Julia Gillard. By comparison, the men who actually orchestrated the rise and fall of our first female Prime Minister, got off relatively easy.

June 28, 2013
Women Quarter Nomination Court sits Countrywide, Zimbabwe

The nomination court for the members of the House of Assembly, senatorial, women quarter and provincial councils has begun in different provinces of the country.

June 27, 2013
Julia Gillard speech after being ousted as prime minister - video, Australia

Julia Gillard speaks after Kevin Rudd won the Labor leadership ballot. Gillard, in a calm speech, thanks her supporters and constituents and announces, as promised, she will be leaving politics due to the defeat.

June 26, 2013
Women pin rights hopes on new Parliament, Zimbabwe

June 26, 2013
Samoa parliament reserves seats for women

Samoa’s Parliament has decided to unanimously endorse an amendment to the constitution which will allow five parliamentary seats to be allotted to women cand

June 26, 2013
How Women Are Increasingly Winning Parliamentary Elections In India & World Over

June 26, 2013
Women ablaze: Australia's fiery gender-war election

Loud, crude, risky, seductive, personal and at times violent, Australia's "gender war" will go down as the legacy of the 2013 national elections, no matter the political outcome.