The Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian reservation in the US, is poised to elect its first woman president in an election tainted by allegations of dirty tricks.
The women’s movement for gender equality in Iran has for thirty years been at the heart of wider political struggles in the Islamic Republic.
A Gallup survey released last month indicated that the top issues on the minds of Americans include the economy, jobs, “dissatisfaction” with government, the federal budget deficit, health care and immigration. Abortion didn’t even crack the top 10.It is true for women, as well.
President Hosni Mubarak has set 28 November as the date for Egypt's parliamentary elections, a decree cited by the state-run Mena news agency says.For the first time, 64 seats in the 518-member chamber have been created, which can only be contested by women.
"When we women speak out, without showing fear, we pay a high price: living with that fear," says one peace activist in Colombia. "The threats will not stop us from working for peace and social justice," says another.
MANAMA: Hundreds of thousands of Bahrainis turned up at various polling stations throughout the day on Saturday to cast their votes in the country's third parliamentary elections since 2002.The overwhelming turnout, especially that of women, came as a pleasant surprise.
Democratic women are redoubling their efforts to preserve their numbers in the House and Senate as scores of their colleagues appear increasingly endangered.Of the 54 Democratic women who the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says are running for re-election to the House, at least a doz
Though their number is up from 6% in 2005 to 8% this time, still few women candidates are in the fray in 2010 Bihar polls.
Women will make up the majority of likely voters in this year’s election – about 51 percent to 49 percent, by most estimates - and Democratic contender Jerry Brown has the bulk of their support.