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 The latest French government, a government with an equal number of male and female ministers by Lucile Huguet, iKNOW Politics writer (Photo: NIVIERE/SIPA) The Valls II cabinet             France will still have to wait to

By Christine Lagarde

Brazil, on the way to gender equality

By Mariana Jardim Andrade Leones

By Aswath Komath

Marina Silva by Lucile Huguet, iKNOW Politics writer.             Marina Silva is a female political activist from Brazil who has been involved in the fight to protect our planet since the age of twenty five.

By  Xingyu (Phyllis) Lu

"It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern wars." These are not the words of a woman who has faced the violence and ferocity of conflict, but words of Major General Patrick Cammaert, who served as the Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Mission to the Democrat

The rising influence of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has paralleled the rapid development of women’s political participation worldwide.