Loznica town management senior official Ljubinka Gordanic is one of the many high-ranking women that heads to work each day in the west Serbian town. In the country as a whole, women make up 51.4% of the population and just 2% occupy executive posts.
US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says that a women-sponsored legislation calling for the enactment into law the reservation of 30% legislative and political positions for women is unnecessary.
As Nigeria tries again to begin its staggered general elections on April 9, spare a thought for the women who will be putting themselves forward as candidates in an overwhelmingly male field.
A group of some 16 women organization announced on Sunday the launch of the Women’s Organizations Coalition in a press conference discussing the role of Egyptian women in formulating and building a democratic country after the January 25 revolution.
South Sudan’s governing party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), said on Tuesday that it wants to encourage
CCM Women’s Wing (UWT) national chairperson Sophia Simba, has called on women in the country to effectively use the opportunity availed for contributing their views in regard to the constitution review bill.
The government’s Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is designating $750 million, nearly half from US coffers, to create jobs and alleviate poverty by providing women with funds for food, health and training in the tribal belt.
European Parliament MEPs demanded that gender mainstreaming must be implemented in the EU cohesion policy in a mini-hearing with external experts on Gender Mainstreaming in the EU Cohesion Policy organised by the Committee on Regional Development on Tuesday, 13 April 2011.
The Turkish media are not keen on highlighting women’s issues, and when it comes to the Arab spring, it follows the same policy and neglects women most of the time.