Report / White Paper

The number of women in parliament is consistently low throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Many factors contribute to this situation, but studies suggest that one major factor relates to the way that women are treated on social media.

The world walked into 2021 with the shadow of COVID-19 looming large over its head. As well as posing a major health risk, the pandemic had also caused economic and social upheaval.

This report assesses women’s access to justice and women’s political participation in parliament, local councils and civil society organisations in Colombia.

Although a voluminous literature has studied the substantive representation of women, these studies have largely been confined to advanced democracies.

How do quotas for women in Sri Lanka’s local government institutions affect key governance indicators such as perceived fairness, institutional trust, and perceived performance?

This working paper presents data and analysis on women’s representation in local government by UN Women as the sole custodian agency for 

According to Palestinian Central Elections Commission data, the first phase of the 2021 local council elections showed the extent of women

The primary objective of this 2019 CEMR study on women in politics is to evaluate the progression of women’s representation in decision-making over a ten-year period and to present an overview of the current situation.

In 2016 at the launch of the #NotTheCost campaign, NDI presented a list of strategies to address and prevent violence against women in politics, focusing on a wide range of potential change-makers, from the global to the grassroots levels.