As part of the 2026 National Assembly Open Week, the House of Representatives convened the National Dialogue on the Electoral College Model for the Special Seats Bill, bringing together legislators, government officials, development partners, civil society organisations, women leaders, and govern

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWA

The year 2025 saw mixed progress on women’s overall representation in parliament, but a key development was the visibility and election of several women from historically disadvantaged groups, including women with disabilities, young women and women from indigenous communities, as shown in the IP

From 1 July 2026, for the first time in its 137-year history, the Secretariat of the Inter-Parliamentary Union will be managed by a woman.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has published new guidance urging lawmakers to act faster and more decisively against non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including sexualized deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence (AI), a phenomenon that disproportionately targets women and girls.

Hong Kong civil society has faced increasing challenges in recent

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When NASA was preparing for the launch of Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983, the engineers asked Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, if

Nine days remained — just nine days before the deadline expired, the bill died, and years of work would have to begin again from scratch.