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December 2, 2013
Delhi: Parties claim big, but still keep women out

Campaigning for the December 4 Assembly elections in Delhi ended on Monday with around 25 rallies and road shows being organised in the capital.

December 1, 2013
Number of women legislators expected to double, Indonesia

Women’s activists in Bali expect that female representation in the Provincial and Regional Councils could go up to 15 percent next year from its current 7.5 percent, which is the lowest in the country.

December 1, 2013
Liberia: Recipe for Discrimination - Lofa Rep. Frowns On Women Wings in Political Parties

Lofa County district #4 Representative Hon. Mariamu B. Fofana has frown on the creation of women's wing in political parties in the country.

December 1, 2013
Can Women Save US Democrats in 2014?

The Democratic Party is hoping 2014 will be a Year of the Woman—again.

November 30, 2013
German SPD chief vows women to get half of party cabinet jobs

The leader of Germany's Social Democrats on Sunday pledged a 50-50 male-female split of the party's cabinet posts in a planned new 'grand coalition' with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, according to a newspaper interview.

November 30, 2013
Women in politics: a very suitable job

It's time to stop considering parliament's failure to represent society as a problem for women, and see it for what it is – a problem for everyone.

November 29, 2013
Women in politics, Fiji

PARLIAMENT needs to reflect the society it represents, says Fiji Women's Rights Movement's executive director Virisila Buadromo.

November 28, 2013
Celebrating 120 Years of Women’s Suffrage

Twenty-eighth November 2013 marked the 120th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, the first country in the world to give women the vote.

November 28, 2013
Political Parties - Allies or Foes on Gender Sensitive Parliaments?

Women MPs have urged political parties to commit to gender equality as an inherent political objective and assume their role as key entry points to women’s political participation at an IPU-organized event during the Women in Parliaments G