Rising above party politics and individual differences, Pakistani women parliamentarians have officially launched the Women’s Parliamentary Caucus. It was long awaited and was the need of the day for women’s empowerment, development and emancipation.
Feminist groups are moving to assure that the New York Senate seat that Hillary Clinton will soon vacate goes to a woman -- and they have chosen their candidate: Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.
It is important to empower women to participate in decision-making at the community and national levels, according to Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports Yu-Foo Yee Shoon. She said the Singapore government welcomed women to leadership positions based on meritocracy.
Three out of 12 female aspirants from the Western Region would enter the next parliament. The next parliament would also witness the entrance of new faces when it resumes its sittings in January 2009.
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