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Three racialized women run for Toronto City Council for the Fall election, a unique moment in a city council dominated by white men. "We talk a lot about diversity. We say diversity is our strength. We don't lack talented people.

Women are profoundly underrepresented in peace negotiations around the globe.

An illiterate peasant who is a mother of nine, Jori had made a bid for the PB-25 Jafarabad seat in the Sindh provincial assembly that had suddenly been vacated with the killing of its occupant, Sardarzada Rustam Jamali.Few had expected her to win in the by-elections held on Mar. 10.

Women, we are told by clever psephologists, will put the next man in Downing street. All the leaders of the main political parties are male. We are the king makers and breakers but it still has to be a King.Still, we have the power!!!

Since the mid-1990s, Dalit women’s groups and platforms have expressed three concerns: impact of state policies, patriarchal bias of Dalit movements, and upper-caste/middle-class leadership of the women’s movement.

On Wednesday March 24th, 47 women from across the country and from all political hues graduated from the 1st Women in Politics Project hosted by the National Women’s Commission. Minister of Human Development and Social Transformation Hon.

Despite remarkable progress in improving the status of women in social and economic terms, China lags the rest of Asia in empowering women politically, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) study has found.Women's participation in the labour force in China is now 70 per cent, far higher t

As a member of the Presidium of the Vietnam Women’s Union and chief of its legal committee from January 2006 to December 2007, Khanh was endorsed by the Union and reelected to the legislature in 2008.