On January 3 and 4, Egyptians voted in the third and final stage of elections for the lower house of Parliament, the People’s Assembly. Seventy-one out of 498 seats are still being decided through runoffs, but the results for the other 427 seats are final.
Kuwaiti female political activists unanimously agreed, on Thursday, that women should be given more opportunities to participate in the political life in the country.
Does the 'empowered Manipuri woman' actually exist or is the phrase just a myth?
Last September a striking story stole the headlines of newspapers and media outlets all across Ghana. Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of the nation's founding father, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, became the first female chairperson of a political party in the country's history as an independent state.
For the first time in the history of elections in India, an all-woman team of general observers has been assigned the task of conducting free and fair polls in Goa.
Cambodia’s political parties say they are hoping to get more women candidates to run in local elections next year. Some say they could potentially double the number of women representing their parties in commune councils after the elections in June 2012.
A landmark bill aimed at guaranteeing 22 women-only seats in the parliament of Papua New Guinea has failed to get the votes required as the nation's political crisis continues.
The members of the European Parliament will vote on 17 January on who should be their president for the next 30 months. Although the Parliament is fond of speaking about democracy, its internal procedures are not transparent, and women are still largely absent from its leading positions.
Women are being left out of key decisions on distribution of wealth and resources because they are not active in political parties, a new survey has revealed.