The Lebanese Women’s Council called Friday on all women’s rights groups to put politics aside and unite toward holding MPs accountable in the coming elections.
The Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe has called on the Zimbabwean leadership, SADC leadership and the mediator, President Jacob Zuma, to work towards the production of a gender sensitive roadmap to elections.
Brazil's first woman president now has ten women in her cabinet, two short of her 30 per cent target.
The Arab Spring created hope for democracy in which women would at least have a voice. But we're still waiting.
PDP presidential aspirant in the April elections, Mrs Sarah Jibril, yesterday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint more women in his cabinet.
Saudi Arabian women ushered in a wave of new suffragettes when over 50 women risked arrest last Friday in defiance of the driving ban. Even riding a bicycle is forbidden to women in Saudi Arabia.
Oil helps, of course.
The jigsaw-solving women of Jeddah feel campaigning is on the rise, but a Saudi summer to follow the Arab spring seems far off.
Unidentified officials arrest documentary maker and women's rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi at her home.
A prominent Iranian documentary film-maker and women's rights activist, whose work includes banned films about Iran's society, has been arrested by unidentified officials.