Afghanistan woman member of Parliament, 30-year-old Malalai Joya, has been conferred the prestigious Anna Politkovskaya Award for her work in defending human rights.
At a gathering of more than 300 women, Chair and Co-Founder Melanne Verveer highlighted 10 years of Vital Voices involvement and engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean, opening the Women Leadership Summit.
The Council of Women World Leaders, a policy program of the Aspen Institute, hosted a panel discussion between former US Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Margot Wallström, the Vice President of the European Commission. This event was the inaugural program of the Madeleine K.
Speakers at first national conference of South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) called for promoting gender equality by portraying women and men in a non-stereotypical, humane and balanced manner.
A coalition of local NGOs has called on the government to take action to increase the number of women involved in politics by 2015, despite women's representation in the National Assembly increasing from 13 percent to around one in five in the current mandate.
The Angolan minister of Family and Woman Promotion, Genoveva da Conceição Lino, highlighted the role played by women in the country's decision-making organs, mainly in the Government and National Assembly.
Last night’s election may prove a major setback for women’s representation if the final results show we have fewer women—or at best the same number-- in the House of Commons.
At the last Parliamentary elections in March 2006, the coalition won 43 of the total 55 seats, including the only two women in the Assembly. Another two are deputy MPs.