4 April 2012 - Myanmar’s Election Commission announced last week the landslide victory of the opposition National League of Democracy (NLD) party, winning 43 out of 44 parliamentary seats (97 percent) in the by-elections of April 1.
10 April 2012 - Dr Naana Agyemang-Mensah, Country Director of the Hunger Project-Ghana, a civil society organization, has urged women elected to political positions to work hard to make a difference and let their impact be felt.
8 April 2012 - END OF AN ERA: As she ends her tenure as senator today and with that, her term as women, family and community development minister, Datuk Seri Shahr
11 April 2012 - Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has been voted the likeliest candidate to be the next female prime minister.
11 April 2012 - When Sara Ahmed joined a protest in November to demand the resignation of Yemen's president, she and the other women marched at the very front of the crowd. But no sooner had they set off through the capital than they were shepherded towards the back.
12 April 2012 - Finding a way to balance inequality between men and women has long been on many countries' agendas, but Sweden has taken it to a new level: it has taken gender out of everyday language.
13 April 2012 - A female parliamentarian from Bhutan is 16 – 22 April visiting Denmark to meet with prominent female Danish politicians. The visit is part of the documentary film “Yes Madam Minister”.
House Democrats will make history in the 2012 election, sending to Congress next January the first women and minority-majority party faction in U.S. history.