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Joe Biden on Friday nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the supreme court, seeking to elevate a Black woman to the nation’s highest court for the first time in its 232-year history.

Outgoing Liberal MP Nicolle Flint has used her valedictory speech to urge the parliament to better protect women from offensive, insulting and intimidating behaviour, while taking aim at "the left" and social media giants for the harassment and abuse she has endured during her time in politics.

The National Elections Commission (NEC) and political parties executives have signed the violence against women in elections and politics, the (VAWIE/P) Protocol. The signing of the VAWIE/P Protocol, commits political parties to fully implement, and popularized the Protocol throughout the country. The Gender Section of NEC, in collaboration with UN Women organized the Buchanan City Hall program, and was witnessed by several elections stakeholders on Friday, 18 February 2022.

The presidential campaign in sight. To fight against physical and psychological violence against women, the feminists behind the #MeTooPolitique movement announced on Monday February 21 the launch of an observatory on gender-based and sexual violence.

While proven or alleged acts of sexual violence have multiplied in recent years on the French political scene, nearly 300 women from this milieu had published a column in Le Monde in mid-November to denounce the status of women in this sphere with the hashtag #MeTooPolitique.

The achievement is part of a long trek toward gender equality in Mongolia’s foreign policy.

Last year, Mongolia celebrated its 110th anniversary as an independent country. Along with that, modern Mongolia has notched 110 years of national diplomacy. Amid the task of foreign policymaking, the foreign ministry has also made developments in diversifying its workforce. The current office of the foreign ministry appointed the highest number of female ambassadors in the history of modern Mongolia.

The Morrison Government has welcomed the latest Gender Balance on Government Boards figures, which show that for the first time, more than half of Australian Government board positions are held by women.

Women now hold a record 50.2 per cent of Australian Government board positions, the highest overall result since targets were announced in 2016. It is an 8.5 percentage point increase from 30 June 2013, when women held only 41.7 per cent of Australian Government board positions.

Exclusive: presiding officer Alison Johnstone says it will be disappointing if parliament cannot attract more female politicians.

It will be “really disappointing” if the Scottish parliament cannot attract more female politicians within the next five years, says Holyrood’s presiding officer, as she launches Holyrood’s first women’s audit to investigate barriers to representation and participation.

The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) says it is collaborating with the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre(PLAC), a Civil Society Organisation(CSO) towards increasing women and youths participation in politics.

Prof. Sam Egwu, the INEC Niger Resident Electoral Commissioner, said this at a Roundtable on Strengthening Internal Democracy with Special Focus on Gender and Social Inclusion in Abuja.

Mandisa Maya, Judge President of South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal, was recently recommended by the country’s Judicial Services Commission to become the next Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court.