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The choice of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as one of three Nobel Peace Prize winners this year is already sparking controversy.

Though the committee did not mention the revolutions that have coursed through the Arab world this year, many Arabs writing in social media saw the inclusion of Ms. Karman as a nod to their efforts and discussed what it would mean for the future of protests there, especially in Yemen.

Oxfam warns that women’s “hard-won gains remain fragile.” Numerous gains have begun to see reversals says Oxfam’s recent October report, “

The Shama Municipal Coordinator of the Coalition of Women in Governance, an NGO, Madam Cynthia Sonlika, has appealed to political parties to let women to contest unopposed in the 21 new constituencies to be created by the Electoral Commission.

"In his dispatch to the State Department in early 2007, Vershbow predicted Park would not be nominated as the party’s presidential candidate, writing, “many, even in the GNP, say that Korea may not be ready yet to elect a female president.” He added that “even if she loses this time, Park will r

Ukrainian's women politicians occupy 8 percent of seats in Parliament (36 seats out of 450). According to Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Tomenko, changing the electoral system in country will lead to a reduction of female parliamentarians.

Only a few days after the New York Times ran Nicholas Kristof’s piece on the courage of one young woman in Sierra Leone who refused to suffer in silence after being raped, President Obama authorized 100 U.S.