East Asia and the Pacific

“Iran can be introduced as the role model of women education to the world, given its achievements in this field,” Mlambo, also Executive Director of UN-Women, said in a meeting with Iranian Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Mowlaverdi on the sidelines of t

Attitudes toward female leadership have changed ahead of the 2014 legislative election, as people have begun to be less apathetic toward them, activists working across Indonesia have said.

Women voters in India will play a decisive role in determining the outcome in the country’s general election, polling for which begins on April 7th.

International IDEA in collaboration with Demo Finland, UN Women and the Embassy of Finland organized a seminar on the Electoral System and Women’s Representation in Nepal: Need for Reform? on 4 March 2014 in Kathmandu.

Two senators from Palau say the women in politics they met during a recent visit to Australia have inspired them to be better politicians.

In anticipation of local government elections, much of the discourse in recent months has challenged the laws put forward by provincial governments under judiciary-induced deadlines, including lukewarm lobbying for the greater inclusion of women at the grass-roots level.

The political parties may be wooing women with their electoral promises; the latest voters' list shows a slide in the sex ratio in the enrolments done in the district. The sex ratio in the electoral rolls has declined from 913 females per 1,000 males in 2009 to 886 females in 2014.

The Speaker of the Tongan parliament, Lord Fakafanua today launched a program, the Practice Parliament for Women. The program aims at encouraging women to enter parliament.