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Empowering Women for Stronger Political Parties
How women participate in political parties – and how those parties encourage and nurture women’s involvement and incorporate gender-equality issues – are key determinants of women’s political empowerment. They are also key to ensuring gender-equality issues are addressed in the wider society. If strategies to promote women’s involvement in the political process are to be effective, they should be linked to steps parties can take across the specific phases of the electoral cycle – the preelectoral, electoral and post-electoral phases – and to the organization and financing of the parties themselves.
The most effective strategies to increase women’s participation in political parties combine reforms to political institutions with targeted support to women party activists within and outside party structures, women candidates and elected officials. These strategies require the cooperation of a variety of actors and political parties from across the political spectrum.
The Guide identifies targeted interventions that political parties can take to empower women. It is structured according to four phases, following an electoral cycle approach.
Balkans : women are seeking a better role in democratization efforts.
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2011-10-18 03:32
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In Europe’s Balkan region, where citizens are trying to overcome ethnic conflict, political polarization and struggling economies in hopes of joining the European Union, women are seizing a larger role in democratization efforts.
Increasingly, they are working together across ethnic and partisan lines to inject new life into stalled politics.
Serbia: Majority of parliamentary parties are against more women in Parliament
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2011-06-07 23:29
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In spite of the EU request that the number of women is increased in all representative bodies, in Serbian Parliament these days there is ongoing debate as to how the legal 30 percent of women in every caucus is cut to 25 percent.That, however, seems not to be sufficient. Thus the DS and SPS have filed an amendment to the proposed Law on election of deputies which rejects the mechanism according to which a woman whose mandate expires is to be replaced by another woman.
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Serbia: Majority of parliamentary parties against more women in Parliament
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 18:36
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In spite of the EU request that the number of women is increased in all representatives bodies, in Serbian Parliament these days there is ongoing debate as to how the legal 30 percent of women in every caucus is cut to 25 percent. That, however, seems not to be sufficient. Thus the DS and SPS have filed an amendment to the proposal Law on election of deputies which rejects the mechanism according to which a woman whose mandate expires is to be replaced by another woman.
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Serbia:Women's rights still an uphill battle
Submitted by Barbora Galvankova on Thu, 2011-04-21 00:23
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Although guarantees exist on paper, non-compliance with the standards and principles of gender equality remain an obstacle for women in Republika Srpska. Experts say, the most common forms of discrimination against women are domestic violence, violation of women's labour rights, and participation in public and political decision-making.
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Serbia: Loznica - A Step Towards Gender Equality
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-04-13 19:12
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Loznica town management senior official Ljubinka Gordanic is one of the many high-ranking women that heads to work each day in the west Serbian town. In the country as a whole, women make up 51.4% of the population and just 2% occupy executive posts. In Loznica, out of the 176 town administration employees, 114 are women -- exceeding the European standard of women accounting for 30% of an administration.
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Serbia: More women entering politics
Submitted by Barbora Galvankova on Tue, 2011-04-05 09:09
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The vice-president of the Gender Equality Council and state secretary in the Labour and Social Policy Ministry, Snezana Lakicevic, says women have far more opportunities in Serbian politics than was the case even a few years ago.
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New Realities Concerning European Left Wing Gender Equality Politics: Case Study from the South Eastern European Region
This report compares the situation and potential for action of women in South Eastern Europe and investigates party politics on gender equality.
Assessing Women’s Political Party Programs: Best Practices and Recommendations
The assessment is designed to identify the specific elements and approaches which were most effective in encouraging women’s participation and leadership in political parties. Although drawn from NDI programs, the information gathered in this assessment is intended to be used by both individuals and organizations as a road map to help facilitate women’s political leadership worldwide.
