While women in Guatemala have slowly been making political gains, a new report by NDI and UN Women shows that a significant gender gap persists.
ACTIVISTS under a coalition of women and constitution intend to camp at the Constituent Assembly when it commences next month, with a view to guarding their proposals already infused into the Katiba draft.
I laughed over the François Hollande “affair”, even when Valérie Trierweiler’s “deep blues” resulted her being hospitalised. Seemed like the vapours that conveniently overcame Victorian ladies. Ha ha.
Governor Margaret Alva on Friday said the country must act soon to quash the perils of gender-based issues among other evils. She insisted on institutional spaces for dialogue, and, as importantly, institutional mechanisms to reflect the will of the people.
FEMALE political stakeholders have condemned the violence that characterised 2013 and have implored political parties to learn to co-exist.
The two most powerful women in Bangladesh — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader, Bangladesh National Party chairperson Khaleda Zia — have made international headlines this month as elections in the troubled nation resulted in violence.
“When I began my research on the representation of women and female politicians in the media in the eighties, people kept telling me that ‘it will take time, but it will get better’. I believe that I have good reason to say that it hasn’t. It has become worse,” says Liesbet van Zoonen.