Dear Member of Parliament,
The Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP) is delighted to invite you to the Annual Summit 2013, taking place at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium from 27 to 29 November 2013.
The Pacific region has the lowest level of representation of women in national legislatures, a tag that it would like to shake off.
But one woman who has made it into her national parliament is Charmaine Scotty.
At the end of 2011, women made up about 10 per cent of all parliamentarians in Arab states - far below the 19.5 per cent figure worldwide. However, some women in the region are making small steps into the political arena. Lebanon has a reputation as the most liberal country in the Arab world.