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The Muslim Brotherhood’s first women’s division, the Muslim Sisters Group, was created in 1932.

To curb impersonation, bogus voting and to avoid inconvenience to burqa-clad women going to vote on Thursday, the election authorities and political parties in Muslim dominated areas have deployed woman polling agents.

To mainstream gender dimension into all stages of the budget cycle, a pre-budget seminar on ‘Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB)’ was organised at the Planning Commission auditorium.

The Reset DoC Doha Conference 2009 “East and West: Women in the Media’s Eye”?, jointly organized by the Northwestern University in Qatar and Rome-based Reset Dialogues on Civilizations (DoC) Foundation, was attended by media researchers and professionals who presented examples of portrayal of wo

They were a real political loss, as female candidates who many were former activists failed to win the elections, she said. "It turns out what we called the women movement is really fragile.

Bochra Bel Haj Hmida is a lawyer, women's rights activist, and former president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women. She has been one of the fiercest opponents of she regards as the oppression of Tunisian women regarding inheritance.

Amongst the explicit and subtle contradictions of a social fabric which remains conservative and extremely cautious to maintain the separation of the sexes, women in Kuwait have won their latest battle in the war for professional equality: the first 16 female cadets from the Saad Abdullah Police

Ana Marian de Oliveira, an MP from the ruling MPLA, said that the group of women MPs is trying to address gender concerns in social and family stability and in the security of the physical integrity of women.

Members of the National Assembly (NA) Committee for Social Affairs focused their discussions on how to enhance gender equality at the NA plenary session from April 23-25.