Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah stressed on Wednesday the right of women to become involved in politics and urged the Lebanese people to rebel against "anyone who obstructs the building of a strong Lebanese state."
After the presentation of Nigeria's Sixth Country Report to the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women in New York, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs in collaboration with the International Republican Institute IRI, a United States private implementing partner organised a two day sen
At this point, it has been made clear that Yemeni women wouldn’t succeed in their political participation as candidates unless there is a constitution or law ensuring their suffrage to stand in the elections as candidates, like the way they were ensured the right to vote.
There are still too few women on the lists of candidates for Brazil’s municipal elections in October. Women candidates for the position of mayor in the Oct. 6 elections represent only 10.3 percent of the total, hardly larger than the 2004 figure of 9.5 percent.
A member of women’s faction, Fatima Aalia, said here on Monday that the faction intends to change into a ‘women and family faction’ in parliament in order to facilitate the path toward establishing a ‘women and family committee’.
Women are playing a crucial role in post-genocide Rwandan politics with the help of a seat reservation system that has made the country one of the few with equal representation of the sexes.
While Livni appears to be the front-runner in today's vote, her bid to become Israel's second female prime minister -- Golda Meir held the post from 1969 to 1974 -- is hindered by doubts about her lack of military experience.
The coalition of women's rights groups has requested that the government introduce gender quotas as a means of increasing women's participation in politics, according to a statement released Monday by Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC).
Mauritius - along with Botswana, Malawi and Madagascar - did not sign the Gender Protocol at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in August.