The position of women in politics is quite similar in India and the United States, said ambassador Meryl Frank, deputy US representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, here on Wednesday.
“Kyrgyzstan would not have prosperity without women’s support, Omurbek Tekebayev, deputy head of the interim government said Monday at the National Conference “Women political participation in constitutional reform and parliamentary elections”.
Female candidates may be poised for a better-than-average general election season this year after women walked away with some of the top wins in this week's primaries, experts who study women in politics say.
Out of the creative, pitiless turmoil that was Russia in the early 1990s a remarkable political force emerged and, briefly, flowered: a party that entered the 1993 parliamentary elections with a list made up entirely of women.
At a time when a number of African States are grappling with the challenges of ratification and domestication of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the African Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, The Gam
Kiran Bedi, a celebrated former police officer, on Monday said she would join active politics after the women's quota becomes law but expressed apprehensions about the bill's passage.
Independent candidacy is a major way for more women to be elected into political offices, a former minister has said.
Fresh from a dramatic increase in the number of women representatives elected into national government last year, the NGO Gender Coordination Network is already implementing plans for the Malawi's "50/50 campaign" to ensure that more women than ever before sit in local government seats after the
Indonesia’s political parties and legislators have not strongly supported women in politics, despite a law that requires that women comprise 30 percent of all candidates, say researchers.