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Political parties have been urged to field more women candidates in the forthcoming elections if Zimbabwe is to realise gender equity and

The feminist party, Kuña Pyrenda ("platform" in the indigenous language 

There has been an increase of 8.4 per cent in the number of voters in the district, compared to last elections. The total number of voters in Kodagu is 4,02,333. It was 3,71,056 during 2008 Assembly polls.

Despite the welcome addition of a woman candidate contesting independently from Bajaur Agency, the overall number of women candidates contesting on general seats of the National Assembly (NA) has stayed much the same since the 2002 election.

African women make less than one percent of the senior counsel in the legal profession in South Africa, the Sunday Times reported. 

Egypt’s uprising in early 2011 was celebrated as a bona fide people’s revolution, the distinct presence of female protestors at Tahrir Square appeared to promise a

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition defeated an election-year opposition bid Thursday to set a quota for female board members in a vote that exposed a party rift and forced her

The Congress, the BJP and the JD(S) may not have much in common, but they are united in their belief that 

Representatives of the government and the House of Representatives told a court hearing on Tuesday that the new legislative election law did not sideline women and was devised to em