King Mohammed VI announced on Wednesday the lifting of Morocco's reservations on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), describing them as obsolete.
Serpil Sancar Üşür, a gender expert from Ankara University, has said most political parties do not give high priority to women’s political participation, preventing Turkey’s democratic progress.
Habil, a 53 year-old Christian lawyer, beat five male candidates, including her younger brother, to become mayor of the predominantly Coptic Christian town of Komboha in southern Egypt.
International Conference on Women and Governance in Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent states was organized as a joint effort of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in association with Turkish International Cooperation & Development Agency (TIKA) under the Framework of
Promises on women’s rights do not translate into changes in women’s lives because too often the implementation is simply not in place, a new report found. Turkey is using new gender-sensitivity training in the curricula of the army and state organizations
Although Turkey's political parties have started to nominate candidates for the upcoming local elections amidst talk of increasing women's involvement in local administrations, there has been little progress in the cause of equality due to the lack of implementation of gender quotas, the huge exp
The figures indicate that the number of women elected to local authorities next year is likely to be lower than the number elected at present, and will fall far short of the EU and United Nations target of 30 per cent of women in seats.
Highest 18 women have won 22 parliamentary seats in Monday's battle of ballots, meaning the new parliament will have the highest number of at least 63 female lawmakers, including 45 to be elected to reserve seats, in the history of Bangladesh.
Executive Director for Gender Support Programme (GESP), Cecilia Mussa said on Saturday most political parties were favouring men to women to stand as aspirants, a situation she described as detrimental to achieving 50-50 representation in the National Assembly.