With the addition of 2.38 lakh new voters to the electoral list, the district now has a total of 39.84 lakh voters in 12 assembly segments including Phaphamau, Soraon, Phulpur, Pratappur, Handia, Meja, Karchana, City West, City North, City South, Bara, and Koraon.
A group of Pacific women politicians and leaders have met in Fiji to find ways to boost the number of Pacific women in elected positions.
The Pacific has the lowest number of women in government in the world at just 4-point-7 percent.
Efforts to boost the participation of women in Afghan politics are in serious jeopardy, an IWPR debate has heard.
More than 50 per cent of candidates nominated by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party in the upcoming provincial and district council elections should be women, a coalition of 12 civil society groups said in a letter on Thursday.
Nepali women had much to be proud of as 172 of them were seated in the country’s newest Constituent Assembly on Jan. 22.
Colonel Jamila Bayaz, a 50-year-old mother of five, this week became the first women to be appointed police chief in Afghanistan.
Women voters outnumber men in 22 of the 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu.
In the previous Lok Sabha elections in May 2009, women outnumbered men in 15 constituencies.
Maximum in southern districts
As a young girl in Bangladesh, you could say I grew up parallel to the legendary rivalry between the country’s main political foes, Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia: two very powerful women with some serious political capital.