Women's rights advocates and federal lawmakers in Washington, DC pledged to revive the efforts to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They believe that the amendment has a better chance to be ratified in this Congress.
Geneva has become the first city in Switzerland to have a parliament where women are in the majority. After the local elections on Sunday, women now occupy 45 of the 80 seats in the parliament.
Women activists in Turkey launched a new campaign aimed at increasing the number of women elected to parliament. The campaign depicts the patriarchal society in Turkey by featuring well-known women wearing false moustaches.
Three women out of 116 candidates will be running for the municipal elections in Qatar.
A woman leader in Canada transferred the funds raised from her campaign to the Judy LaMarsh Fund. She believes that contributing this money to the Fund will prove that women are effective at fundraising and will help other women to get elected.
Wales has benefited from the ground-breaking 50:50 ratio of men and women at the Assembly, improving women's representation in the political and economic life of the country. However, there is still "a long way to go" towards achieving full equality.
Women representatives from political parties and civil society in Kenya claim that women should constitute one-third of the committees in the Tenth Parliament to negotiate minimum constitutional reforms.
A report published in New Delhi states that women are the most vulnerable survivors of the 2004 tsunami. The report links severe hardships suffered by these women to the discrimination politics existing in the Indian Ocean countries.
Thirteen Yemeni women will follow their male colleagues on house raids and search any women they encounter.
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