On Tuesday, Capito led a group of 16 other Republican women lawmakers to a meeting Tuesday with both the president and first lady, to convey what she was hearing about people’s frustration over where the war is going to lead and their uneasiness about the situation in Iraq.
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister, Ms Martha Karua, has defended her proposal to set aside 50 seats for women in Parliament. Karua said more women should be nominated as the current Parliament had only two per cent women representation.
Experts on women's issues say outright prejudice is only part of Japan's problem. An even bigger barrier to the advancement of women is the nation's notoriously demanding corporate culture, particularly its expectation of morning-to-midnight work hours.
Jordan's Islamists Sunday criticized the government's endorsement of a United Nations convention eliminating discrimination against women, describing it as a "most dangerous" agreement.
The National Survey on Women’s Perceptions of Exclusion and Discrimination found that in the life plans of most women in Bolivia, work comes first, and a decreasing number have plans based exclusively on marriage or motherhood.
In "Election Day," a documentary about the experiences of voters in the 2004 election, an Ohio woman is shown having trouble casting her ballot. She had moved, and despite re-registering, went to three different poll locations because her name didn't appear on the books.
Having the right to vote is one thing; using it properly, or indeed at all, is quite another, as Sierra Leone has shown ahead of general elections this Saturday.
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In its continued efforts to strengthen the capacity of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), the United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL), in collaboration with the Government and UNIFEM, has concluded a three-day capacity building workshop for middle career police officers on their ro
Legislation in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean has not succeeded in ending discrimination against women in political and public life, say participants at the 10th Regional Conference on Women being held in the Ecuadorean capital.