Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano called on President Aquino over the weekend to appoint a female commissioner at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in compliance with the Magna Carta for Women which bats for greater participation of women in government affairs.“I’m urging the Preside
More than 59,000 female voters were not allowed to vote in PK-87 Shangla-l by-elections January 29, the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) reported February 9.
Aggrieved female aspirants who failed to clinch the party's ticket in the last Peoples Democratic Party's primaries have been advised not to leave the party.Wife of the Governor of Rivers State, Dame Judith Amaechi, who gave the advise on Wednesday during separate meetings with Rivers State Femal
In the middle of January, people in southern Sudan stayed in line for as long as three days to vote in their election.
The Women and Media collective, an NGO promoting women’s rights requested female voters at the upcoming local government election to cast at least one preference vote to a woman candidate.A total of 25 women candidates were nominated from the main political parties for the local Government electi
Ms Samia Nkrumah, the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) Member of Parliament for Jomoro at the weekend challenged gender advocates to join the Elections 2012 contest as they seek to empower other women to contest for elective positions."Empowering women through capacity building workshops are good b
There has been a long standing cry for Nigerian women in politics to assume more active and participatory roles, rather than just making do with the crumbs and pacifying roles mete out to them by political zealots and bigots, but the more the cry, the more the struggle, the less the results.
Four political parties with representation in parliament on Monday asked political parties to develop a Women's Fund to support women aspirants in parliamentary and presidential elections.