Report / White Paper

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global emergency of multiple dimensions.

This brief summarizes challenges and recommendations of the impact of the recent pandemic of COVID-19 in Tunisia on gender-based violence, access to justice, women and health, and women’s leadership and political participation.

This year’s report looks back at 25 years of women in parliament on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Beijing conference and its groundbreaking action plan for gender equality.

In late 2018 and early 2019 UN Women interviewed 87 per cent of the women who ran for Parliamentary election (75 of the 86 women; of the 113 women who registered to run, 86 made it on to candidate lists).

Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) have long played a central role in the advancement of human rights.

Introduction

This research report seaks to analyze the use of social media during the 2018 General Election in Pakistan.

The Report on Gender-Sensitive Parliaments is the result of a two-year research project. It follows up on a previous IPU publication, Equality in Politics: A Survey of Women and Men in Parliaments (2008).

Around the world, women are targeted by violence because of their commitment to vote, their jobs as electoral officials and their aspirations to hold political office.