A new election law is set to include an additional 56 seats, all of which will be allocated to female candidates, according to Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak and a key figure in the ruling National Democratic Party.
On special occasions in this rural Javanese town, women cover their heads, wear long flowing clothes and, according to Muslim custom, sit separately from the men in a place where they are barely seen and certainly not heard.But no one seemed to mind when the district leader, Rustriningsih, addres
India's parliament has elected its first woman Speaker after a sweeping victory for the Congress party in recent general elections. Congress veteran Meira Kumar, 64, a former lawyer and diplomat, was elected unopposed to cheers from MPs.
Women lawmakers of the ninth parliament at an orientation programme today pledged to work together for empowering the womenfolk politically and towards removing disparity between men and women.
This Thursday, when finance minister Syda Bbumba makes a grand entry into the Serena Conference Centre to present the 2009/2010 budget, she will in all likelihood be greeted by thunderous applause.
he BJP is committed to 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state legislatures. We will not dilute on the numbers (anything less than 33 per cent), but are ready for any formula which satisfies all," BJP Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj told reporters here.
Women are still strikingly underrepresented in the world’s parliaments: their share of representatives is less than a fifth. However, the situation shows signs of progress in developing countries.
Happy to have overcome two decades of electoral drought in the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the Congress party in a symbolic gesture of thanks has put its most prominent leader from the underprivileged Dalit caste, Meira Kumar, in the speaker's chair.
One can be born in Lebanon and live here all one's life, and still not be a Lebanese citizen. Lebanon is one of few remaining countries in the Middle East where a mother is unable to pass citizenship to her children.