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How many women are in your parliament?

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March 27, 2020

How many women are in your parliament?

Over the last 25 years, since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action by the United Nations i

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Over the last 25 years, since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action by the United Nations i

March 27, 2020
Numbers of women in parliament remain low in Caucasus and Central Asia

The presence of women in parliaments across the Caucasus and Central Asia has risen in the last 25 years, albeit slowly: in most countries in the region, between 15 and 25 percent of their MPs are women.

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March 27, 2020
How suffragists raced to secure women's right to vote ahead of the 1920 election

The year 1917 was highly consequential for the suffrage movement.

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March 27, 2020
‘Opening a door that was closed too long’: the hunt for a female vice-president

Hours after the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential campaign and all but assured the next American president would be a white man in his 70s, a group of influential Democratic women gathered for dinner at a Spanish restauran

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Women in parliament: 1995–2020 - 25 years in review

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March 26, 2020

Women in parliament: 1995–2020 - 25 years in review

This year’s report looks back at 25 years of women in parliament on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Beijing conference and its groundbreaking action plan for gender equality.

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This year’s report looks back at 25 years of women in parliament on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Beijing conference and its groundbreaking action plan for gender equality.

March 26, 2020
How female Prime Ministers are leading in this time of crisis

Across the world, more than ever people are looking for strong, inspiring leadership. Three incredible Prime Ministers are demonstrating particularly heartening excellent resolve during this pandemic. Oh, and they just happen to be women.

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Violence against women in politics

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March 24, 2020

Violence against women in politics

Violence against women in politics involves a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors. Its central motivation is to exclude women as a group from public life.

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Violence against women in politics involves a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors. Its central motivation is to exclude women as a group from public life.

March 20, 2020
Paying attention to women’s needs and leadership will strengthen COVID-19 response

A week since The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic and robust measures around the world attempt to contain its spread, social impact of the Novel Coronavirus is hitting women hard.

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