12 Mar 2012 - Dozens of women seeking to vie for political positions have allegedly been 'bought off' by politicians for fear of competition in the next general elec
The newly constituted 16th Assembly of Uttar Pradesh has 35 women members, that is the highest number of women MLAs in the history of the state Assembly since Independence.
For Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, women are tougher opponents than men in politics.
“Women can straightaway walk into kitchen and convince the household on their ideas and this is not that easy for men,” he says.
10 Mar 2012 - Hundreds of women gathered at the first international conference of Hizb Ettahrir in Tunis today.
15 March 2012: The UK's major political parties have shown open hostility or indifference to the demands for much greater gender equality in the devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales, a study has concluded.
13 March 2012: Such is the opinion of Imrana Jan, a prominent media representative of Hizb Ettahrir Britain - the "Party of Liberation." Jan came to Tunis to attend the party's international conference organized around the topic, "The Caliphate: a Shining Model for Women's Rights and Political R
19 Mar 2012 - On the sidelines of celebrations of International Women's Day, the first conference of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Women's Committee in Cairo concluded its activities with adoption of a number of important recommendations in the near future, and honoring of some of the moth
18 Mar 2012 - The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga has expressed concern over the failure of the minister for gender, lab
18 Mar 2012 - Hundreds of women took to the streets of the Moroccan capital Rabat on Saturday, urging parliament to revoke a law on sexual violence.