Women groups in the country are seeking a special forum with presidential candidates of all the political parties contesting the December polls to discuss their agenda for gender equality and women empowerment in the post-elections era. Ms.
Young women from across the Middle East and North Africa gathered over the past week at the Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar for the inaugural ‘Young Women Leaders Academy’.
2130 Partners, an executive leadership development and education firm that trains leaders to create focus, alignment and collaboration around a sustainable shared vision, today announced that it will provide leadership training to approximately 30 indigenous women leaders of Peru in partnership w
The most powerful woman in Israeli politics and a former spy, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, is now a frontrunner for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's job after he announced his forthcoming resignation today.
Sudan's new electoral law grants women 25 percent of seats in parliament and introduces proportional representation in what has been billed as a road towards democratic transformation.
Lifetime Networks today announced the launch of the 'Every Woman Counts' bus tour to engage women in the political process this election season and beyond.
Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, in her new book 'Know your Power', urges young women to determine their own fates.
On 18 July 2008, councillors of the District Council of Moka-Flacq committed themselves to ensuring that the village elections of 2010 would end with 30% women as District councillors. Women councillors make up a mere 3.7% in the Moka-Flacq District Council.
The Philippines House of Representatives and Senate are nearing passage of a 'Magna Carta for Women' - a Bill that will codify the UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).