Nine months after the overthrow of the former president, Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in the region. In three articles on the topic, Kristine Goulding asks:
The UN Secretary-General’s annual report to the Security Council on women and peace and security has been released ahead of the Open Debate.
Hundreds of women have set fire to their traditional veils in Yemen in protest at the violence used against anti-government demonstrators.
Afghanistan has been called one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, and much of that danger lies in the home.
According to the United Nations, more than 87 per cent of all women there suffer from domestic violence.
Liberian women in politics predominantly defeated female candidates in the October 11, 2011 general and presidential elections have declared support for incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the November 8, 2011 runoff.
Norway vies with its Nordic neighbors for the title of most gender-egalitarian country in the world. Yet gender equality still seems to stop at the bedroom door, and even here, women who recounted their experiences declined to be identified, fearful still of retribution.
The town voters handed fresh-faced pol
Local government representatives welcome increased participation from women here, but they say they prefer literate to illiterate candidates. But women who won seats in the election and women voters say that equal gender representation is more important than literacy.