Women MPs will launch a mentorship programme to encourage youthful women vie for political positions. Thorough the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association, the female legislators are seeking to identify young women whom they will teach how to achieve the objective through civic education.
A government fund meant to assist vulnerable women under the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development has been abused, a recent parliamentary report has revealed.
Women were restricted to cast their votes in Mianwali constituency for by-elections on six National Assembly (NA) seats and four seats of the provincial assemblies.
The fifth phase of assembly election in the city witnessed a huge participation of Muslim women voters. According to the data available from Kanpur South till 12 noon, around 60% male voters had cast their votes while 39% women had used their franchise.
Africa’s prospects, in this 21st century, depend on the ability and willingness of her leaders to fully include women in local, national and international decision making processes.
Cabinet ministers can no longer continue burying their heads in the sand when it comes to gender equality issues as pressure amounts from the EU to establish gender quotas in the boardroom and politics, said MP Marianne Mikko.
On Thursday March 2, an IsraAID delegation of Israeli experts will fly to Juba, South Sudan, with the support of a private family foundation and the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and in cooperation with FIRST and the Israel-based NGO Operation Blessing Israel, to conduct the first ever Gende
28 February 2012- Having already testified to a government commission, victims of sexual violence eschew new process based on traditional justice