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January 17, 2022

Get equipped with the skills to run for office

The Women for Election EQUIP program is Australia’s first non-partisan, online political campaign workshop.

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The Women for Election EQUIP program is Australia’s first non-partisan, online political campaign workshop.

Candidate officielle à la présidentielle française, Christiane Taubira veut bousculer le paysage à gauche. Crédits: Le Figaro
January 17, 2022
Former justice minister Christiane Taubira joins France's presidential race

France's former justice minister Christiane Taubira on Saturday launched her bid to unify the floundering French left and challenge President Emmanuel Macron in April presidential elections, but she faces a slew of competing candidates reluctant to cede the limel

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January 17, 2022
‘We are struggling’: two former officials at Afghan women’s affairs ministry

Gul Bano* and Karima* are activists who ran provincial branches of the ministry of women’s affairs in two different parts of Afghanistan.

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Cheri Beasley, a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, speaks with the owners of Zwelis, a Zimbabwean restaurant, in Durham, N.C., on July 7, 2021.Getty Images file
January 17, 2022
Black women look to make historic gains in 2022 US midterm elections

Cheri Beasley is well aware of the challenges facing Black women who run for statewide office.

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January 17, 2022
Indian Punjab polls: Congress party’s first list of 86 has only 9 women candidates

The Congress party on Saturday released its first list of 86 candidates in Punjab. Out of the total, Congress has decided to field only nine women candidates in the upcoming polls.

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The decision to run: uncovering the barriers and motivators for LGBTQ women running for office

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January 14, 2022

The decision to run: uncovering the barriers and motivators for LGBTQ women running for office

LGBTQ Victory Institute’s The Decision to Run Report set out to uncover the barriers and motivators for LGBTQ women who want to run for office.

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LGBTQ Victory Institute’s The Decision to Run Report set out to uncover the barriers and motivators for LGBTQ women who want to run for office.

We need girls in school to become women in politics

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January 14, 2022

We need girls in school to become women in politics

Very little of the security and stability we strive for can be achieved without women’s equal and unapologetic participation. That’s why we need to help make sure girls in school can become women in politics. It’s 2022 – time to start making it happen.

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Very little of the security and stability we strive for can be achieved without women’s equal and unapologetic participation. That’s why we need to help make sure girls in school can become women in politics. It’s 2022 – time to start making it happen.

Primera ministra de Barbados, Mia Mottley, en la XVI Conferencia Raúl Prebisch en Ginebra, Suiza, 10 de septiembre de 2019. Foto en Flickr de Timothy Sullivan, UNCTAD (CC BY-SA 2.0).
January 14, 2022
Barbados prime minister calls a snap election, the first poll for the island as a republic

For the first time in the island’s history, women leaders will take Barbados’ two major political parties into the arena as the island prepares for a snap general election.

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