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May 30, 2012
Indonesia: 98 Percent of Branches Support Megawati

Pramono revealed this when explaining the preparations for the PDI-P congress on April 6 in Nusa Dua, Bali.A total of 471 branch administrators and 33 provinces, including 25 parted regions, said Pramono, have finished their meetings.The four branches that have proposed Guruh Soekarnoputra as Cha

May 30, 2012
India: Dynasty is glue of S Asian politics

India and Pakistan may have charted different paths since Independence, but there is one point at which they converge — the politics of dynasty. Historian Ramachandra Guha noticed this striking, somewhat piquant similarity as he drove down the Mall in Lahore last year.

May 30, 2012
Solomon Islands: Workshop looks at how media reports on gender issues

“Media is very powerful and has great influence over the public views issues and actions they take, especially at this time in the run up elections,” says Val Stanley of UNIFEM.Ms Stanley said the workshop should enable the media to report their articles with sensitivity to gender and women and t

May 30, 2012
Saudia Arabia: Women’s Move Into Workplace Aids Bid to Diversify Economy

“By including more women in the labor force, you increase productivity” and thus add jobs to the economy, said John Sfakianakis, chief economist at Riyadh-based Banque Saudi Fransi.

May 30, 2012
Philippines: Women group pushes for political participation

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.

May 30, 2012
Nigeria: Gender activists want more women in Jonathan’s cabinet

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

May 30, 2012
Ghana: Reforms Must Address Land Inequality for Women

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

May 30, 2012
EU: Direct Democracy -Citizen Initiatives Come to Europe

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.

May 30, 2012
Ghana: Political Parties urged to promote rights of women

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.