Afghanistan is holding a peace jirga or an assembly of powerful leaders, tribal elders and representatives of civil society to consider plans to open talks with Taliban leaders in an effort to end the nine-year conflict. A possible return
“Political empowerment of women in [the] Arab World sets new signs, and women will make the most powerful changes to the econmic crisis," said HE Dr.
The sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Women Development has called upon the Election Commission and political parties to make coordinated efforts to discourage forced disenfranchisement of women voters during by-elections in different parts of the country.
PKR women’s wing has so far identified six seats which will be allocated for women at the Sarawak state election. Its chief Zuraidah Kamaruddin said the allocation was in line with PKR’s commitment in ensuring 30% women representation at federal, state and divisional levels of the party.
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