Long lasting peace and unity cannot be achieved unless women are involved fully in the political and democratization process in that country. This was the clarion call by Somali women leaders who gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, this week.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf spoke of women's ability to build peace and a better Africa if they worked together, at a breakfast for women leaders in business and government in Johannesburg.
Lebanese women have made great strides in the private sector and are highly visible in the mainstream media as presenters and journalists.
Women in south-east Asia, especially in the Muslim countries of Malaysia and Indonesia, are facing the challenges of both modernisation and growing conservatism.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday reiterated the government's commitment to prioritizing women's empowerment and gender issues in development programs, and called on Indonesian women to develop their potentials.
Kumari Mayawati, a daughter of so-called untouchables and India’s most maverick politician, stunned the nation last year when she won majority control of India’s largest state with an inventive political coalition that fused votes from up and down the ancient Hindu caste pyramid.
The Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) of the U.S. Department of State released on June 17 a request for applications (RFA) for the Women Leaders Program.
In light of growing evidence of the central role women play in a country’s development, many African governments have implemented quotas to boost the number of women parliamentarians.
n keynote remarks to a group of women leaders, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza highlighted persistent problems of violence against women as well as poverty and discrimination.