International IDEA has made women's participation one of its main axes in improving the inclusiveness of electoral processes in the Arab region.
International IDEA works to reduce the gap between women's rights as affirmed in the legal texts in the different Arab countries and the low rates of women in decision-making positions.
Convincing women to run in the upcoming local elections has been “really difficult”, SNP MSP Karen Adam has said, as she urged women and minorities to take up more leadership roles.
Virtual Senedd meetings should continue long after Covid to make politics accessible to all, a politician with an eight-year-old son has said.
Two women frontrunners seek to unseat Macron as feminist issues move up the agenda.
The 22 years old Saraswati Nepali is the mom of two kids and lives approximately five hours' drive (and five hours walk) away from the headquarter of Karnali Province, Surkhet—a place that paid the heaviest of prices in the 10 year-long armed conflict from 1996-2006.
As the world is set to celebrate International Women’s day, Chinese women continue to face political and socio-economic discriminations despite the communist regime’s tall claims of women empowerment. The Covid-19 pandemic has further aggravated the situation.
Social media platforms and other digital technologies have given rise to new forms of gender-based violence.
Advancing gender equality in the context of the climate crisis and disaster risk reduction is one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.
