Of the eight MDGs to be achieved by 2015, efforts to decrease maternal mortality, and improve maternal health (Goal Five) have progressed the least since 2000, according to Ban, who launched the global initiative to focus international attention on the issue.
Given the 24-year lag since Sudan’s last multiparty election, voting in today's Sudanese election proceeded rather smoothly.
Women now hold 55% of all jobs in the public service, and 43% of executive positions. Ms. Barrados says that government should strive for a reasonable balance of gender hiring, but doesn’t think that special programs are required to attract either gender.
The increasingly presidential style of the UK general election campaign has edged senior women politicians out of the forefront of the political debate, shifting focus instead on to the wives of the three party leaders, a number of prominent female Labour MPs conceded today.
Afghan women in public life have always struggled, but the involvement of the international community in Afghanistan over the past eight and a half years opened space for women that did not exist under Taliban rule. Current trends, though, are negative.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called for a special trust fund to finance female candidates vying for elective positions at all levels for the 2011 elections. INEC chairman Prof.
The most engaging and promising politicians in Alberta today are two women at opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Domestic violence may take different forms including; physical, sexual, emotional, or financial. As a result, there has been a strong demand that all sections of the public should fight it.
A number of Majlis committees are studying a new plan to establish a ministry of women. The plan is going to be discussed at the open session of the Majlis in the near future.