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Over the last 25 years, since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action by the United Nations i

Violence against women in politics involves a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors. Its central motivation is to exclude women as a group from public life.

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) has launched #think10, an innovative safety planning tool for politically-active women.

“Gender responsive budgeting is a tool to bring about change.”

The European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes international, cutting-edge research in the broad field of politics and gender.

In many African countries, women leaders lack the resources, numbers and visibility to significantly effect transformational change.

ReflectUS is a nonpartisan coalition of eight leading women’s political organizations working together to increase the number of women in office and achieve equal representation across the ideological, racial, ethnic and geographic spectrum.

Nearly half of the conflict-resolution agreements forged during the 1990s failed within five years and recidivism for civil war is alarmingly high. New thinking on peace and security is needed. 

Through its “Votes Without Violence” initiative, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) is developing and testing new strategies to address violence against women in elections.