Two lecturers at Kuwait University agreed that women were the ones who mostly benefitted from media coverage of parliamentary campaigns, because it was an easy option for those who found it difficult to attend rallies.
The May 19 presidential and parliamentary elections in Malawi will have more women candidates than ever. Statistics indicate that there are about 243 female candidates this year compared to 154 in 2004 elections.
Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, vice president and secretary state for Women's Affairs, has said that the government of Gambia is implementing a zero tolerance policy for violence against women and girls.
Rights activists demanding a change to Lebanon's discriminatory nationality law say they hope the issue will be debated at the few remaining Cabinet sessions before parliamentary elections on June 7.
Kuwait votes in a parliamentary election on Saturday, two months after the ruler of the world's fourth largest oil exporter dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament to end a long-running dispute with the government.
The progress made by Morocco in the field of gender equality is an example in the Arab world, visiting MP Lale Akgün from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the German federal parliament (Bundestag) said Tuesday.
Despite the fact that Sierra Leone is a signatory to the United Nations resolution 1325 which seeks to promote and protect women in times of war and in peace yet “the strides made are not good enough.” These were the remarks of Hon.
South Africa's newly elected president Jacob Zuma has appointed 14 women ministers with 12 as deputies. According to media reports in the country, Zuma made sweeping changes to the cabinet making almost half of the ministers he announced on Sunday.
Political candidates running in Lebanon's upcoming elections should clarify how they intend to improve the country's poor human rights record and promise to enforce Lebanon's obligations under human rights legislation, a leading human rights organization said on Wednesday.