Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Wednesday called for "concerted efforts" to guarantee women's say in decision-making and governance, and said it should be incumbent on political parties to ensure at least 30 per cent representation for them in parliaments.
A four-day capacity building workshop organized for aspiring female parliamentary candidates in the country opened at Akosombo on Wednesday.
A medical doctor has become the first woman appointed as a full Cabinet minister in Myanmar.
The 2012 elections in American Samoa will include the highest number of female candidates in the Territory’s history.
60 candidates are vying for the 20 House of Representatives seats.
WOMEN in the Western Division have been encouraged to become more involved in the electoral process as the country prepares for the 2014 elections.
The head of the United Nations Development Programme says her organisation will happily support MPs who want to re-introduce legislation to increase women’s political representation.
Across the Pacific, only about 5 percent of parliamentarians are women.
Women members of prominent NGOs, representatives of political parties and activists attended a discussion forum where speakers demanded that political parties include in their election manifestos issues related to women.
Women hoping to join Parliament will have to face elections if proposals made by MPs and political party leaders are approved by the House.
MIC president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel has given an assurance that the party would also select women as candidates in the coming general election (GE).
He hoped Wanita MIC members would dismiss unfounded rumours that the party would not field female candidates in the GE.