In Turkey women are becoming more enthusiastic over becoming parliamentary candidates, and almost all the political parties are trying to do something toward positive discrimination for women.
Under-representation of women in the Northern Ireland Assembly will be on the agenda during today's debate. Sinn Fein wants a working group set up to address the issue as well as the broader impact of women`s marginalisation within politics.
Ethiopia is one of the three-sub-Saharan countries where women participation in the legislative and managerial levels showed improvement in the last ten years, according to the International Labor Office.
Chinese women have more say in politics, with more than 200 of them now in positions of the governors, cabinet ministers or holding posts equivalent to that level.
Members of the Pan-African Women Organisation met in Johannesburg to prepare the institution´s ninth congress, taking place at the end of May, in South Africa.
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American women have learned how to roar, and they did it in the November midterm elections.
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Civil society groups all over the West African region have called on top officials of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to mainstream women's issues in its policy formulation and implementation, to ensure peace and security in the region.
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The President of the United Nations General Assembly, a lawyer and rights advocate from Bahrain, has issued a strong call for addressing the social, educational and other constraints impeding the equality of women in the Middle East.