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https://thediplomat.com/2025/08/why-women-in-nepal-cant-afford-to-stay-in-politics/
September 4, 2025
Why Women in Nepal Can’t Afford to Stay in Politics

Nepal is heading to the polls in less than two years. Voters will choose their representatives for three tiers of government – the local, provincial, and federal – which will shape Nepal’s political course until the early 2030s.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-briefing/2025/08/press-briefing-by-un-women-on-the-new-afghanistan-gender-alert
September 4, 2025
Press briefing by UN Women on the new Afghanistan Gender Alert

Today, UN Women is releasing new data which shows that, despite this ban, the vast majority of Afghans – women and men alike – support girls’ education.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2025/08/four-years-after-taliban-takeover-afghans-overwhelmingly-back-girls-education
September 4, 2025
Four years after Taliban takeover, Afghans overwhelmingly back girls’ education

In a nationwide, door-to-door survey of more than 2,000 Afghans, 92 per cent said it was “important” for girls to continue their schooling, with support cutting across rural and urban communities.

https://www.undp.org/moldova/press-releases/analysis-2025-parliamentary-elections-detailed-study-representation-women-and-men-electoral-lists
September 4, 2025
Analysis of the 2025 Parliamentary Elections: A detailed study on the representation of women and men on Electoral Lists
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/car-maputo-protocol-womens-rights/
September 4, 2025
CAR: Ratification of the Maputo Protocol, an essential step – sustained efforts to guarantee women’s and girls’ rights must follow

Reacting to the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, (

Female political prisoners in Belarus face abuse, humiliation and threats of losing parental rights
September 3, 2025
Female political prisoners in Belarus face abuse, humiliation and threats of losing parental rights

TALLINN, Estonia -- Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a

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