Two of South Korea's highest-profile women politicians kicked off a campaign on Thursday to pick the mayor of the capital Seoul, which analysts see as a litmus test of support for parliamentary and presidential elections next year.
Oman says that only a single woman has been elected to the nation’s top advisory council despite a push by female candidates that followed pro-reform unrest in the Arabian peninsula nation.
Winston Tubman, Liberia's main opposition candidate, has withdrawn a demand for a recount of the presidential poll and said he will take part in a runoff. Tubman made his announcement after election authorities declared on Sunday that no candidate had obtained an absolute majority.
Although it is true that men are the main protagonists in Iraq’s political scene, women have carved a special place for themselves as key players to be reckoned with in parliament.
Female candidates must comprise 50 percent of the names on party lists for the October 23 Tunisian elections. But getting their constituents to look them in the eye - much less vote for them - remains a challenge for many women.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman is visiting New York to demand action from the UN to end the bloodshed in her native Yemen.
The future of Tunisian women is a key issue in the elections – the first vote of the Arab spring.
My interest in political and human rights and social media started recently with the revolution in Egypt. Before January 2011, politics and human rights never interested me. But like many other Arab youth, the changes in the Arab world opened my eyes and mind to a new world.
Though each proportional list in the upcoming parliamentary elections must contain one woman, some prominent women political figures fear that women will be marginalised in the poll