The Americas and the Caribbean

A record 294 women have filed papers to run for the U.S. House this year and shattered the previous high mark for female candidates set in 2010. An additional four women are expected to do so, according to the non-partisan Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

Thursday 01 March 2007, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic -- Under the auspices of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW), various civil society organizations and State offices for women and gender agreed to work together to promote increased political participation of women in 10 Latin American countries.

International IDEA has organized a meeting of female parliamentarians from six countries who will meet in Lima on June 4-5, 2007 to analyze their experiences as members of women’s parliamentarian caucuses.

Legislation in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean has not succeeded in ending discrimination against women in political and public life, say participants at the 10th Regional Conference on Women being held in the Ecuadorean capital.
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Indigenous and black women in Latin America and the Caribbean face three-fold discrimination because of their gender, race and social class, in politics and at work.That is how it was put by participants in a panel on "Citizenship and Political Participation by Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Women" at the 10th Regional Conference on Women that ended Thursday in the Ecuadorean capital.
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Women town councillors in Bolivia are pressing for a law to protect them from discrimination and political harassment on the part of their male colleagues, whom they accuse of intimidation and even death threats, especially in rural areas.
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More than a hundred Latin American leading women will meet October 26 in Honduras, to boost political resources and commitments headed to the fight against Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
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Ten women’s organisations from Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela participated in the first ever Women in the Fight Against Poverty Regional Competition, sponsored by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), whose mission is to enable poor rural people to overcome poverty.
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