2009 Datu Bago awardee Lyda J. Canson bared during the recent Kapihan sa PIA that it is about time that women should take part in transforming politics by being involved in crafting, legislating, and implementing policies for the public.
The Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, should embrace the national gender policy that states reserving 35 per cent of all political appointments for women and therefore, create wider room for women to participate in governance, a woman activist and executive director of Equity Advocates, Ene E
Presenting the survey findings at a workshop in Accra on "Identifying Elements of Gender Sensitive Land Reform Processes", Nana Ama Yirrah of COLANDEF noted that the role of women in the customary land administration has remained ambiguous in practice and renders women disadvantaged in terms of
Meant to bring everyday Europeans closer to the E.U. institutions that govern them in distant Brussels, the direct democracy experiment allows citizens to sling their concerns onto the E.U. agenda.
The Eastern Regional Director of the Department of Women and Children's Affairs, Ms Jane Kwapong, on Thursday appealed to Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to set up a fund to support women who want to go into politics, especially at the grassroots level.
The fundamentalist Christian party SGP must stop refusing to allow women to stand for parliament as MPs, the high court ruled on Friday.
Almost three months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, women advocates and UN officials are increasingly worried that Haitian women are being sidelined in national relief and reconstruction efforts.
Fatma Abdel Mahmoud from the Sudanese Democratic Socialist Union Party is the first female presidential candidate in Sudan's history.
A Policy and Advocacy Officer of the Foundation for Grass Roots Initiatives in Africa (GrassRootsAfrica), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has urged the political parties to nominate women as running mates for the 2012 General Election.