Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) women wing (UWT)in Kilimanjaro Region is planning to start women competition in business and politics, with the view to encourage more women to join politics and at the same time engage in income generating and subsequently fight poverty.
A former Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, Joyce Adeline Bamford Addo, has been appointed as the Speaker of the Fifth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. She is the first woman to assume such a responsibility.
Norway tops a ranking of countries doing the most to close the gender gap, followed by three other Nordic nations, in a survey made by the World Economic Forum.
Guinean women, under the auspices of the Women's Association for Change (CFC), have called for better representation in the country's political and social affairs.
A little more than two weeks before Iraq’s provincial elections, there is widening anger that the published version of the election law has only a weak provision to set aside seats for women.
The General Elections Commission said on Monday that now that it has the government’s support, it plans to stand firm on its proposal that a government regulation-in-lieu-of law be issued to ensure that a minimum number of women are elected in the national legislative elections on April 9.
“While the quota is a major step forward, changing the situation of Mauritanian women is still a slow process because their colleagues discourage them from leading on issues,” Aminettou Mint Ely, head of the local non-governmental organisation (NGO) Association of Women (AFCF) told IRIN.
Women MPs have condemned the absence of females from the list of new ambassadors and from a top-level team named to streamline the affairs of the Grand Coalition Government.
Women councilors on Wednesday announced that they would hold a protest in front of the Parliament House on March 8, the World Women Day, to demand increase in their seats in local, provincial and national assemblies.