Nearly 30 members of Niger’s national assembly discussed the relationship between gender and Islam during a one-day forum organized by NDI in Sadoré (40 km from Niamey, the capital of Niger) on March 7.
On February 6, 1918, a select group gained suffrage but it took 10 more years before all women had the same voting rights as men. Yet at the last election, in 2010, more than nine million women didn’t use that hard-won right.
Ending two years of speculation and coy denials, Hillary Rodham Clinton
UNDP has been providing training to 25 aspiring women, offering information on advocacy and lobbying tools, and also a chance to network.
Since 2001, at least 14 political parties with a women-oriented political agenda have emerged across India, according to an analysis of an official
International IDEA’s West Asia and North Africa programme began in 2011 and has been working to support women in politics since as the objective of gender equality is indivisible from International IDEA’s goal of sustainable democracy worldwide.
More than 100 Kosovar women from all sectors of society traveled to Pristina last week for the fourth annual Week of Women (WoW). The weeklong event, supported by NDI, brings together Kosovar women to hone skills and techniques to help them become more effective leaders in their fields.
UN Women together with the European Commission, the Belgian Development Cooperation, and UNRIC is organizing a Comic and Cartoon Competition on Gender Equality.
The People’s Democracy Party (HDP) has co-chairs for all representative levels. A female and male official share the responsibility.
By Graziele Grilo I watched the movie “The Judge” and one quote of Billy Bob Thornton’s character got my attention. At a certain point in the movie, he says “The law is the only thing capable of making people equal”. I kept thinking about it because it reminded me of an article published during International Women’s Day stating how many laws still exist that prevent women from having equal rights.
