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"The media tend to interview those people of high-ranking ministers and chief of departments, but most of them are men.

President Pratibha Patil, who inaugurated the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Election Commission, said the impediments, lacunae and malpractices in the electoral process would have to be removed with determination to make Indian democracy “cleaner, healthier and stronger.”Making a strong pl

The significance of the voting on Tuesday was that the active participation of women in voting.

Groups representing Afghan women warned the international community on Wednesday against pursuing a peace deal with the Taliban, fearing a return to the austere Islamist rule that saw women banned from education and work.Women from a United Nations agency, the Institute for Inclusive Security and

Liberian women most of whom could not read and write for the past several decades but were seen as mere housewives or middle level business women, whilst their male counterparts had dominantly taken lead in national affairs.But today, this trend is completely different and has brought about a cha

At Thursday’s London conference on Afghanistan, more than 50 countries will to try flesh out the details for a plan to gradually hand security to Afghans, which involved strengthening and expanding Afghan security forces, improving the way donor aid to Afghanistan is spent and reintegrating Talib

Nepalese women are playing a greater role in politics and economics these days, but their participation in politics is far from the 50 percent that would represent equal and fair representation.

The advancement of women’s rights is critical to political and economic progress everywhere around the world.