The WYDE | Women’s Leadership Initiative is a collaborative global effort aimed at advancing women’s full and effective political participation and decision-making at all levels, especially those most often left furthest behind.

The advocacy for empowering women to participate more actively in politics and governance in Nigeria is gathering momentum once again, particularly as the country’s political discourse shifts increasingly towards the 2027 general elections.

One year on from her inauguration as Mexico’s

Mass mobilizations have been a feature of Claudia Sheinbaum’s first year presiding over Mexico, and to finish her first “accountability” tour of Mexico and mark one year of governance, she had her biggest yet.

Maria Del Carmen Huber Guevara, 63, travelled in a bus with 60 other people all night just to get the chance to see Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in person during a rally Sunday in Mexico City. 

Some stakeholders in the North-east have identified mentorship and quota systems as critical factors that will increase women’s participation in politics.

As Jammu and Kashmir gears up for another round of Rajya Sabha nominations, a familiar question returns, and once again, it risks being ignored: will a woman finally find a place at the table? For more than seventy years, the answer has been an unbroken no.

On Sunday, 5 October, Syria held its first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime last year.