African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), Abantu for Development, Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE) and Christian Mothers Association of the Catholic Church have paid a visit to Liberian refugee women at the Buduburam refugee camp.The pu
The media’s handling of women’s issues has always generated heated debates in different communities around the world, and the Arab region is no exception.
A special quota is needed to guarantee women's participation in municipal council and parliaments across the Arab world, a leading Bahraini lawyer said yesterday.
Women leaders and women’s rights activists submitted a memorandum to the government demanding the inclusion of women in the list of 26 Constituent Assembly (CA) members to be nominated by the cabinet.
Last year's presidential and parliamentary elections marked an important milestone in the history of Sierra Leone but according to the National Electoral Commission, out of a total number of 1321 nominees for the local council elections, women constitute just only 17 percent of that number; of th
Kuwaiti women will participate in parliamentary elections tomorrow for the second time in the conservative Muslim country’s history. They hope to improve on their performance in 2006 when they failed to win any seats.
Fifty influential female and male leaders have formed a Middle East Gender Parity Group to tackle discrimination and close the gap between the sexes.
Karat who spearheaded the campaign for the passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill along with some other women leaders will be the third woman member after Najma Heptulla (Bharatiya Janata Party) and Prabha Thakur (Congress) included into a Parliamentary panel to study measures related to the Bil
The Government today launched a taskforce aimed at getting women from ethnic minorities involved in grassroots politics. Women and Equalities Minister Harriet Harman said the project would aim to encourage women to stand as councillors.