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October 23, 2013
Why the police and the Tories should beware of 'that woman' Theresa May

Yesterday I sat through three hours of evidence trying to get to the bottom of who said what at a meeting about who said what during a five minute altercation a year ago.

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October 23, 2013
New Nauru female MP say Parliaments are not just for men

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.

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October 23, 2013
Filipino women ‘breaking ground’ in government

The Philippines has hailed a UN Security Council resolution recognising women’s role in the peace process, saying that the measure raised the status of women from “victims” of conflict to agents of amity.

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October 23, 2013
Afghan women vow to participate in elections

Hundreds of Paktia Province women October 23 rallied in Gardez to announce their intentions to actively participate in the upcoming elections next year.

"We will be voting for the candidates who could help us achieve our rights," civil society activist Anar Gula said.

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October 23, 2013
20 percent women, 100 percent effective

Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., once said her experience as a preschool teacher was excellent training for Congress.

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October 22, 2013
Mizoram polls: No women representatives in state legislature, India

Women voters have been outnumbering male voters in Mizoram for the past few years, but paradoxically there are no women representatives in the state legislature for years together. 

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October 21, 2013
Esslinger wants to explore why more women councillors not elected in Edmonton, Canada

Bev Esslinger wants to look for ways of attracting more women to civic politics after becoming Edmonton’s only female councillor.

“Certainly, it shows we as a city need to work on getting more women involved in politics,” the Ward 2 councillor-elect said Tuesday.

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October 21, 2013
Yemen's quota: Success for international community or Yemeni Women?

On September 15, Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi wrote his first-ever op-ed in hopes of reassuring the Yemeni people of the current political transition’s progress.

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October 21, 2013
Shutdown Political Barriers for Women... And Reap the Rewards

In an era of government distrust, political gridlock, and legislative dysfunction, women may be the power players who forge solutions and help address our nation’s most divisive problems, argues Swanee Hunt in a recent article in Global Post. Ms.

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