Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post

As discussion of falsehoods about the 2020 election and their deadly consequences are televised from Capitol Hill, states’ top election officials are grappling with inaccurate information — which can make them targets.

Lebanon has one of the highest overall gender gaps in the world, ranking 145 out of 153 countries.

No women are at the top of the ticket in the crowded Democratic primary race for governor, but seven have been picked as running mates.

The first recipients of the grants from Labour MP Stella Creasy’s MotheRED scheme to encourage women into the Commons tell why it could help stop the rot in politics.

The message seems quite clear that politics in Nigeria is a game for rich, old men, to the detriment of the real change-making demographics - women and youths.

Women are more likely to hold interim leadership roles in federal politics, but clinching the top role remains elusive.

I know first-hand the difference that having women at the table can make.

Automatically bundling equality and democracy has led to the rise of “genderwashing”.

President Kaïs Saïed is in the process of wiping out hard-won democratic rights in Tunisia.