One of the major reasons women are prevented from voting is that their participation in the decision-making process is against centuries-old tribal traditions. No party -- whether liberal or conservative -- is ready to challenge these traditions.
A spokesperson for Iran's judiciary announced yesterday that three Iranian-Americans, including academic and women's rights advocate Haleh Esfandiari, have been formally charged with endangering national security and espionage.
Gender gap held in the House's vote yesterday to approve a bill authorizing supplemental funding for the war in Iraq without benchmarks for withdrawal. Of the total 142 votes opposing the measure, 37 were made by women.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and 19 other female ministers, diplomats and lawmakers from around the world called on the United Nations yesterday to appoint more women in high-level positions, including as special envoys to trouble spots.
Israeli foreign minister Tzippi Livni made a plea for Israelis and Palestinians to begin talking with each other after meeting with several leading Arab women at a conference May 31.
An official of the Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFEL), Attorney Zeor Barnard, has called on females across the country to coordinate activities with their male counterparts in the fight against Gender Base Violence.
Several dozen Palestinian television journalists protested Sunday in Gaza after a shadowy Islamist group threatened to decapitate female journalists who did not dress according to a strict Islamic dress code.
Women are strongly underrepresented in the television and film writing sectors, a report issued in May by the Writers Guild of America, West (WGA) found. Women constitute 27 percent of television writers and only 19 percent of film writers.
The Zanu-PF Women's League is pushing for the establishment of a women's youth league to champion issues of the young women and help recruit them into the party.
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