However, in Senegal, this right largely remains mere words.

Exile Hub is one of Global Voices’ partners in Southeast Asia, emerging in response to the 2021 coup in Myanmar, focusing on empowering journalists and human rights defenders.

Tekan Cochrane is an Australian Indigenous lawyer with Kooma, Yuwaalaraay and Torres Strait Islander heritage, as well as diverse European heritage.

Exile Hub is one of Global Voices’ partners in Southeast Asia, emerging in response to the 2021 coup in Myanmar, focusing on empowering journalists and human rights defenders.

Since 2012, Mali has been in security turmoil with the emergence and expansion of several radical non-State armed groups: Jamāʿ

Since gaining independence from the UK in October 1962, Ugandan women have played a critical role in shaping politics and governance throughout the country.

Encouraging more women to seek public office — and helping them achieve that goal — is the focus of an upcoming virtual training event.

With the first primary elections of the 2026 midterms just two weeks away, the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, shares resources for covering women in this year’s elections and understanding their place in Ame

Seven women candidates, majority of them from the BNP, have been elected to Bangladesh parliament in the 13th national election, a media report said on Friday.

The protesters, under the aegis of Women Political Participation (WPP) noted that delays in passing the bill could undermine women’s  representation in the next parliament.  The women, carrying various placards called for swift passage of the bill.