Iranian women have been expressing their opposition to discriminatory laws and calling for equality and justice.
A record 54 women won seats in Japan's 2009 election.
Mahdia Abdulhussein's frustration with the Baghdad school system drove her to stand for the provincial council, where she is fighting alongside other women members to advance education and children's issues.Abdulhussein, whose background is in education, said her primary mission is to improve the
Women lost out big time in the elections in Lebanon in June. There were a mere six women MPs out of 128 in the Lebanese parliament. Now there are only four.
"Democracy is not only an end in itself; it contributes powerfully to economic and social progress, international peace and security and respect for fundamental rights and freedoms." - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: Message on the International Day of Democracy, 15 September 2009.This year's comm
All stakeholders will have to struggle to ensure the rights of women in politics, participants of a regional conference on engendering democracies said on Wednesday.The senior rights activists and experts expressed these views on the first day of the two-day international conference under the tit
Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP), the only officially registered Islamic party in Central Asia, wants to boost its two-seat presence in the Tajik parliament in the next elections, scheduled for February 2010.
Anyone looking for a model for the promotion of gender equality should look to Timor Leste.In this 10-year-old democracy, gender equality is not only written into the Constitution, but is also practiced in reality, even though most women still have much to learn about political ropes.
There was only one problem. Her Democratic Party had never been in power. In fact, only one party has really been in charge of Japan since the end of World War II. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) helped build the world's No.