6 April 2012 - “We are not women, we are Egyptians”. That is what a young woman in Tahrir Square said to me on 25 January 2012, celebrating a year of the Revolution, when I enquired about the group of women she was with.
8 April 2012 - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says Sri Lanka still performs poorly on women’s political participation despite relative gains against MDG indicators on gender parity in education and wage employment.
7 April 2012 - At all times the Armenian woman has had her part in an important event in Armenia’s history, the ruling coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia MP Karine Achemyan said during a press conference on Saturday.
8 April 2012 - Thailand and 10 other Asian nations have pledged to find ways to enhance gender equality in politics, according to a statement from a regional conference in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
7 April 2012 - Joyce Banda, who rose to prominence as a relentless women's rights advocate, navigated Malawi's turbulent political waters to become its first female head of state on Saturd
10 April 2012 - A draft constitution prepared by the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC) – due to be published this week – is so organically flawed and so unZimbabwean that it has no chance of surviving critical scrutiny.
10 April 2012 - The spokesperson of Women Development Department, Punjab, in response to a report published in Dawn on April 9, has clarified that the WDD has been created after amending the Punjab Government Rules of Business, 2012.
10 April 2012 - Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama today announced the name of the second international member of the five-member constitutional commission: human rights and constitutional expert Professor Christina Murray.
10 April 2012 - To groom aspiring women politicians by helping them develop necessary skills, IIM Bangalore today launched a certificate course in political leadership for them.