Gender and Development Minister, Julia Duncan Cassell has called on Liberian women to be more proactive and ready for the 2014 midterm legislative election.
South African women and children are the ones who suffer the most when political parties engage in "civil wars", Gauteng Premier Nomv
A record number of women were sworn in as legislators as Senegal's new parliament was inaugurated on Monday.
Sixty-four women now have seats in this West African country's 150-member National Assembly, thanks to a law on gender parity.
The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) has launched a program to train women to spearhead citizenship education towards the promotion of peace, transparency and credibility of the December elections.
The number of women in parliament is not enough to show that parliament is gender-sensitive.
Somali leaders are debating a new constitution that protects the right to have an abortion to save the life of the mother, and an international law group says the draft guarantees more fundamental rights than the U.S. Constitution.
An umbrella body of more than a hundred women groups from across fourteen chiefdoms in Kailahun district, the Kailahun Women in Governance Network KWIG, has expressed grave concerns over the yet-to-be actualised 30% quota proposed for Sierra Leonean women to actively participate in the day today
Women in political leadership in the three northern regions have held a debate focusing on the programmes of their political parties, which seek to build inclusive government.