World News
March 18, 2013
Women Crucial to Cleaner Politics in Indonesia, Politicians and Experts Say
While several female politicians, including former legislator Angelina Sondakh, have been embroiled in graft cases recently, politicians and experts are upbeat that an increased number of women in the House of Representatives will boost the legislature’s performance and standing.
March 15, 2013
A woman of her time: Olga Ruiz Vasquez shows how democracy can work, Mexico
Olga Ruiz Vasquez is a role model.
March 15, 2013
BGIPU hosting landmark visit of the Speaker of the Shura Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Chairman of the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union (BGIPU), Mr Robert Walter
March 15, 2013
Women Making Great Strides In Politics Since Independence, Jamaica
Sandrea Falconer, the minister with responsibility for gender affairs, in a statement in the Senate on Friday, said that women have broken the glass ceiling in politics but there is need for more to be involved in the process.
March 15, 2013
More women entering regional politics, Balkans
Even though Balkan countries are shy of the European average when it comes to women in politics, their presence in public life is growing.
March 15, 2013
Weak Odds for Women in Britain
Could the next British prime minister be a woman? A surge of rumors in Parliament means it looks marginally more plausible this week than it did last week.
March 15, 2013
Record number of women candidates in poll, Kenya
March 15, 2013
First female Prime Minister of Greenland
Opposition leader Aleqa Hammond, who heads social democratic party called Siumut, won 42 per cent of the vote and 14 seats in Greenland’s 31-seat parliament. Ms.