May 30, 2012
Zimbabwe: Women MPs threaten disowning new draft
16 April 2012 - Women Parliamentarians have threatened to disown a draft constitution that does not enshrine womens rights.
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May 30, 2012
Tanzania: Women`s cross-party platform pushes for equal representation
16 April 2012 - Political party members have been advised not to discriminate against women vying for top leadership posts in the country.
May 30, 2012
United Kingdom: The Importance of Inclusion and Equality in Female Leadership
18 April 2012 - I recently attended a Pierhead Sessions lecture at the National Assembly for Wales, where former Prime Minister of New Zealand, and current Administrator for the United Nations Development Programme, Helen Clark spoke on the topic of inclusion and equality in female leadership.
May 30, 2012
Zimbabwe: Gender activists head for SA
17 April 2012 - Fourteen local councils across Zimbabwe have elected to join the Centres of Excellence for Gender Mainstreaming in Local Government that devise and implement local level action plans for attaining the SADC Gender Protocol targets.
May 30, 2012
Sierra Leone: Women’s Forum on confidence building
19 April 2012 - The Women’s Forum in collaboration with UN Women has started a sensitization and mapping out initiative of women aspirants in Sierra Leone as a means of building their confidence and putting them in the spot light in decision making in the country, at a conference held yesterday,
May 30, 2012
Maldives: Political Violence Watch
19 April 2012
Political background
In October 2008 the Maldives held its first-ever multi-party, multi-candidate presidential election. After 30 years under President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed was brought to power.
May 30, 2012
Global: Current WOMEN Environment Minister 2012
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May 30, 2012
France: French Women Wield Little Influence in Election
Women account for 53 percent of French voters but there's little to suggest they will pack their punch behind any single candidate in the presidential election.
May 30, 2012
South Korea: In a Rowdy Democracy, A Dictator's Daughter with an Unsoiled Aura