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Women empowerment

July 26, 2013
Two women parties to run for seats in Chechen parliament

Thursday 26 July was the last day for the election commission of the Chechen republic to receive documents from the parties participating in the u

July 26, 2013
Women candidates in Cambodian elections

To promote women representation in politics, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) has released a map with data analysis of women candidates participating in the National Assembly elections.

July 26, 2013
Ensuring women's participation in the upcoming elections in Zimbabwe

A group of non-governmental organizations has come up with a programme to ensure that women safely participate in the forthcoming elections.

July 25, 2013
Rwanda: Women Poised to Retain Majority in Parliament

With constitutional quotas for interest group seats in their favour and all political parties legally bound to respect women's quota of at least 30 per cent of their parliamentary nominees, women may retain or even widen their majority in the Chamber of Deputies after the upcoming September e

July 25, 2013
Women in New York City politics: The Numbers

Before Anthony Weiner cannonballed into the 2013 New York City mayoral race, the storyline of the election had been whether mayoral frontrunner and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn would become the city's first female mayor (and its first openly gay mayor to boot).

July 24, 2013
Premiers back national inquiry on missing aboriginal women

Canada's premiers are backing a call by aboriginal leaders to launch a national public inquiry into the case of missing or murdered aboriginal women, CBC News has learned.

July 24, 2013
USA: The Female Decade

Michelle Nunn has electrified Georgia Democrats by announcing she will run for the U.S. Senate in 2014. Texas state Sen.

July 24, 2013
Beijing at 20: ECOSOC launches review of progress on women’s rights

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has kick-started Beijing+20, a process to assess how far Member States and other stakeholders have come in implementing the commitments made at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995.

July 24, 2013
First Afghan woman governor wins Magsaysay award

Afghanistan's first and only female governor, Habiba Sarabi, is among this year's recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, often regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize.