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.
As the euphoria of Egypt's revolution fades and the world's attention is captured by the massacres in neighbouring Libya and Bahrain, it is worth taking a moment to acknowledge that for Egyptians - particularly women - the battle is really only just beginning.
It was inspiring to witness women protest alongside men in Egypt; at the time, it seemed like a movement within a movement.
On Friday, Egyptians again gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, this time in a victory celebration, one week after their revolution unseated President Hosni Mubarak. Tunisians have also been sampling new freedoms of speech and press along a boulevard that is no longer a war zone.
The lack of women on a committee charged with amending Egypt's constitution for elections post-Mubarak casts doubt over whether the country can develop into a true democracy, a group of activists said on Wednesday.