"Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, and the establishment of the [Hamid] Karzai government, Afghan women continue to be among the worst off in the world.
Rahul Gandhi told the women to step out and get involved in politics as it was not only important for them but for the country as a whole. "The country needs a society which is not male-dominated.
The decision of whether women can stand for a chieftaincy election in Sierra Leone is being challenged here in Kono, the eastern part of Sierra Leone.But now Kono is seeing another revolution.
The results of last month’s Presidential and National Assembly elections showed a heavily skewed women representation in the next parliament, with only 16 women, representing 22 percent, penciled to start in the National Assembly next year.
Susanna Rustin hits the campaign trail in Queen's Park. Just a few months after joining a political party for the first time, I was standing in the Queen's Park Westminster by-election. The election day was an unreal prospect. I phoned my ad-hoc campaign manager, and asked what to do.
The use of new information and communication technologies such as videos, podcasts, key statistics, SMS (messaging), and interactive spaces such as quizzes, polls, social networking sites such as Facebook and discussion forums, will promote sharing of information and active participation in updat
Although the number of media organisations have clearly increased since 1993, after the elections overseen by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia that ended decades of conflict, many Cambodians still see journalism as a 'man's world'.
A resolution, moved by Munawar Abbasi and supported by several other legislators, paid tribute to the life and politics of Benazir Bhutto.
Sunita was chosen as part of a seven-member village committee to look into the water crisis before she became the sarpanch.