Touted as the new Golda Meir, former Mossad agent-turned-politician Tzipi Livni emerged tonight as Israel’s second woman prime minister, less than a decade after she first entered parliament.
Rwanda became the first country in the world where women outnumber men in parliament, according to provisional results announced Thursday at the close of a four-day legislative vote. Women won 20 of the 53 seats attributed in direct elections.
Liberian Minister of Foreign Affairs Olubanke King-Akerele and Minister of Gender and Development Vabah Gayflor are visiting Finland between 16 and 21 September.
UNIFEM, the UN Development Fund for Women, has released its new biennial report on the progress women have made in such areas as politics, economics and justice. The report is called: Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability.
While women's rights advocates admit that Livni, who won a razor-thin primary against Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz on Wednesday, isn't what they would call a flag-waving feminist, they're convinced she carries her feminist credentials proudly - in her business-suit pocket.
The Women's Media Watch Group (MEDİZ), which is fighting to end sexism in the Turkish media, has published a book suggesting an organized struggle for the protection and enhancing of women's rights in the Turkish media.
Equal Voice is pleased to launch a new campaign entitled “Take our Girls to Vote”.
Aspiring women Parliamentarians should not lose hope as the constitution calls for at least 30 percent representation. This means if this constitutional provision is met there will be a total of 28 women MPs. So far only five women have made it to Parliament by being voted for.
Opportunity International paid homage to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia and Africa's first elected female head of state, at a special awards ceremony hosted by the organization's Women's Opportunity Network at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York today.