Muslim women, who will meet in Malaysia later this year, are pursuing a 10-year plan for advancing women's worldwide leadership within Islam. Seventh in a series on women changing religious institutions and practices.
Fresh federal appointments announced yesterday in Abuja saw President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua naming Nigeria's first ever female Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF).
An American film star, Natalie Portman, has commended Ugandan women for their entrepreneurship, saying it has brought hope to vulnerable communities.
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Seventy years ago, Turkey was one of the first countries to give women the vote. Seven decades later, there is only one woman in Turkey's 20-member parliament. From Istanbul, Dorian Jones reports on a new initiative to build women's political power.
Bangladesh on Monday moved against the leaders of its two main political parties, both former prime ministers, as it intensified efforts to clean up the nation’s corrupt politics.
Forty-six female municipal candidates who head the list of their political parties and 78 female candidates who are incumbent members of parliament from all the political parties for the upcoming municipal and legislative elections yesterday in Yaounde received financial support from the Ministry
To achieve true empowerment for women, "governments need to focus on supporting gender-sensitive institutional change in the institutions of governance," says Aruna Rao.
The most viable female presidential candidate in U.S. history is building what amounts to a separate organization devoted to winning women's votes. As she pursues the Democratic nomination, the scale of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's outreach appears unprecedented.
UPA-Left nominee Pratibha Patil won the presidential election to become India's first woman president in a bitterly contested poll that saw some cross voting from the BJP.Patil won by a huge three lakh margin defeating NDA-backed independent candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.