April 13, 2018
Citizen engagement in Morocco: breaking down barriers to political inclusion
April 13, 2018
IPU gathers parliaments to discuss empowering rural women and girls at the Commission on the Status of Women
April 13, 2018
Women’s Organizations Feed the Constitutional Reform Process in Haiti
April 13, 2018
Nigerian Senate President wants more women in governance in 2019
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has pledged to work with relevant political stakeholders to ensure that a greater number of women are given the opportunity to vie and occupy elective offices during the 2019 general elections.
April 13, 2018
Gambia: Beakanyang trains on women's political participation
Rights advocacy organisation Beakanyang Kafo has trained and sensitised over one hundred women in the Upper and Central River Regions on the importance of political participation.
April 13, 2018
USA: Female candidates take on taboos in new campaign ads
Women are increasingly spotlighting gender as they run in record-breaking numbers in 2018.
April 13, 2018
Japan: Diet to fix low rate of women in national and local politics
The Lower House moved to address the low representation of women in politics with a bill April 12 urging political parties to field male and female candidates in national and local assembly elections in equal numbers.
April 11, 2018
There is an 'avalanche' of women running for office in the United States
(CNN) The 2018 midterm elections are already historic when it comes to the number of women candidates running.
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Promoting the political participation of women with disabilities
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Promoting the political participation of women with disabilities
According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately one billion persons with disabilities worldwide.
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April 9, 2018
Female candidates take on taboos in new campaign ads
From breastfeeding on camera to sharing intimate stories of sexual abuse, women running for office are turning campaign norms — and long-held gender stereotypes — on their head with a flurry of new ads that highlight once tabo