Skip to main content

FGV Brazil
July 23, 2024
Book on Brazilian women’s first steps in politics launched

In the run-up to Brazil’s municipal elections, FGV Press has just published an intense and long book featuring the moving stories of a hundred Brazilian women from all over the country who decided to tackle various obstacles and fight for a place in pol

Raging, radical and ready for change: France’s angry green women are an inspiration to us all

Back
July 15, 2024

Raging, radical and ready for change: France’s angry green women are an inspiration to us all

"I really like these angry green women,” a French friend said recently, as the

"I really like these angry green women,” a French friend said recently, as the

France 24
June 27, 2024
Women 'changing the game' in Mongolia's patriarchal politics

Mongolians go to the polls in parliamentary elections on Friday, with the ruling Mongolian People's Party widely expected to retain a majority it has held for eight years.

Women political activists hold placards as they march during a rally to mark International Women’s Day in Karachi, Pakistan.
June 9, 2024
Gender Parity

PAKISTAN ranks low on the Gender Gap Index in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, 2023. On women’s political empowerment, it ranked 95th out of 146 countries, with only a handful of women occupying senior, managerial, policy- and decision-making posts.

Gretchen Bauer
May 5, 2024
Where are the women in Ghana’s new cabinet?

In September 2024 a long anticipated Affirmative Action Bill (AA Bill) was signed into law in Ghana. But you would hardly know it in early 2025 following parliamentary and presidential elections and the appointment of new cabinet ministers.

‘The political system is misfiring’: Why young women don’t see themselves becoming politicians

Back
April 16, 2024

‘The political system is misfiring’: Why young women don’t see themselves becoming politicians

One hundred and twenty-two years after women in Australia won the right to vote and stand for parliament, it’s fair to say we’ve come a long way on women’s representation in politics. 

One hundred and twenty-two years after women in Australia won the right to vote and stand for parliament, it’s fair to say we’ve come a long way on women’s representation in politics. 

Sudanese women trapped between conflict and political marginalization in peace negotiations

Back
March 25, 2024

Sudanese women trapped between conflict and political marginalization in peace negotiations

In the ongoing war in Sudan, there is an insufficiently narrated tragedy—the plight of women who are paying a hefty price for this war and are simultaneously being kept from the table in the discussion of how this war can end.

In the ongoing war in Sudan, there is an insufficiently narrated tragedy—the plight of women who are paying a hefty price for this war and are simultaneously being kept from the table in the discussion of how this war can end.

Event

Inspiring Equal and Inclusive Participation of Women in Political Decision-Making – Crossed Perspectives from Europe and Japan

Back

Inspiring Equal and Inclusive Participation of Women in Political Decision-Making – Crossed Perspectives from Europe and Japan

The Delegation of the European Union to Japan is pleased to invite you to an online seminar “Inspiring Equal and Inclusive Participation of Women in Political Decision-M