Tanzania is gearing towards the Presidential, Parliamentary and Councillor elections later this year. Already there have been various activities that tell election euphoria is here.
My visit to West Bengal comes more than 16 years after India’s parliament ordered the nation’s local governments to save a third of their seats for women.
When Iraq finally forms a new government, one thing is certain -- there will be many new faces. Only 62 of 275 incumbents were re-elected. In particular, some of the new faces will be women. By law, 25 percent of the parliament must be female.
President, Women Forum for Change in Nigeria, (WFCN) Mrs Abiodun Enwose-Williams, has called on women in all the six geo-political zones in the country to come out en-masse and be involved in politics in order to make themselves relevant Enwose-Williams gave the charge at I
Participants at a day’s forum on increasing women’s participation in decision-making and leadership positions have called on civil society organisations (CSOs) to help re-orient women to believe in themselves as potential good leaders.
It’s beginning to dawn on society that women are the talent base for the future. They’re the force behind consumer spending and the drivers of small-business development.
"The problem is not in the laws but in the mindsets of government employees entrusted with the responsibility of issuing citizenship cards. They cannot imagine a women’s identity independent of a man," said the FLWD’s Meera Dhungana.
The shooting of a female Afghan politician on Monday demonstrates the fragility of the modest gains made by Afghan women after the fall of the Taleban, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
“Are we short of problems that we add one more to it,” said a senior Congress leader and Union minister when asked whether the government was going ahead with the Bill in the Lok Sabha in this session.