The panel discussion "Women's actions in Istanbul after 1980- Women on the streets of Istanbul" was held in the Women's Works Library on Saturday, 30 January.
The amended Women’s Reservation Bill is likely to become law in the coming budget session.The bill, providing 33 per cent quota for women in elected bodies, will be placed before the Union Cabinet shortly, following which it would be reintroduced in Parliament.Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily
The government is considering increasing the number of seats reserved for women in the Bangladesh parliament from the present 45 to 100.
The government's tardy response to a recommendation to revoke 154 discriminative bylaws against women have paved the way for the deliberation of 15 new equally discriminative bylaws, the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) said Friday.The bylaws, implemented in seven
Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO)prepared and presented a shadow report and an oral statement to the 45th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women sitting in Geneva from January 18 to February 5, 2010.
Mrs Chinchilla will become the first woman to lead her country after securing a clear victory in the presidential election.
Prime Minister Boiko M. Borisov of Bulgaria, a thick-necked former karate instructor, bodyguard and onetime fireman, may seem an unlikely feminist.
Women's rights and development activists working in Haiti say that greater attention must be paid to the immediate needs of women and girls, as well as their role in the long-term reconstruction of the devastated country.
More women have reached the pinnacle of power in Asia in recent years than in any other part of the world, and their example has shown that in general, women leaders can be hard to tell from men.Rather than earning their positions independently, almost every one of them has risen to power through