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A Practical Guide to Constitution Building

A Practical Guide to Constitution Building provides an essential foundation for understanding constitutions and constitution building. Full of world examples of ground-breaking agreements and innovative provisions adopted during processes of constitutional change, the Guide offers a wide range of examples of how constitutions develop and how their development can establish and entrench democratic values. Beyond comparative examples, the Guide contains in-depth analysis of key components of constitutions and the forces of change that shape them.

Chapter 2 includes a section on "Principles related to gender" and Chapter 3 includes a section on "The rights of women".

Support for Local Government: Policies, Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming - DGTTF Southern-Sudan

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 created the new autonomous Government of Southern Sudan [GoSS]. The GoSS was required to establish in-stitutions and processes of governance including at the local level, with no pre-vious experience in government and in an environment characterized by the tribal nature of its traditional social or-ganization, identity and culture.

This document details the DGTTF projects launched in South-Sudan, including Project II: Strategy for mainstreaming gender em-powerment in local government.  

Sudan: South Sudan Activists say Women Need Bigger Role

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-04-20 16:12

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Activists say women, who make up more than half of the population, need more than 25% of official positions. “The 25% affirmative action is definitely not enough and we need the pledged 30% to be enshrined in the constitution currently under going review.” One impact of two decades of war is that women now make up over 60 percent of the eight million people of South Sudan, says the Government of Southern Sudan's Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare. And while women fought alongside men during the conflict with the north, or helped the effort in other ways, after the ceasefire, many women feel they did not get the same recognition or respect as men. Merekaje Lona, an activist for womens rights in South Sudan, thinks that even the interim constitutional guarantee of one quarter of public positions going to women isn’t enough.

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For more information, please visit: VOANews.com


Sudan: People's Liberation Movement Encourages Women to Aspire Higher Leadership Positions

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-04-13 22:15

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South Sudan’s governing party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), said on Tuesday that it wants to encourage more women to aspire to elevated leadership positions in the government and private institutions. This will be achieved, the SPLM, say by improving girl’s education in the oil producing region. Speaking at the closing session of a two day seminar on Tuesday 12, April 2011, Brigadier General Effessio Kon Uguak, a senior member of the SPLM in the southern state of Western Bahr el Ghazal said there are positive indications that women in South Sudan are getting into higher leadership positions in both government and private institutions.

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For more information, please visit: SudanTribune


Sudan: Voters savor a tiny taste of democracy

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-04-20 11:00

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Given the 24-year lag since Sudan’s last multiparty election, voting in today's Sudanese election proceeded rather smoothly.

On Day 1 of the three-day vote, millions of Sudanese crowded into polling stations across the country to choose their president, their national and state assemblies, their governors, and other local officials in a very complex balloting process that Sudan’s National Election Commission says was designed to prevent rigging. At polling stations across the capital, Khartoum, even those who expressed their doubts about whether the Sudanese public was actually ready for democracy said that today was an historic opportunity for Sudan to put 22 years of war behind it.

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To read the complete news story please visit The Christian Science Monitor.


Sudan: Sudanese women strive for change

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-04-12 08:19

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Fatma Abdel Mahmoud from the Sudanese Democratic Socialist Union Party is the first female presidential candidate in Sudan's history. Despite having her doubts about the electoral process, Abdel Mahmoud has refused to withdraw from the race - against all odds in a country whose political scene is dominated by men. The country's National Elections Commission initially rejected her nomination, surprising many commentators and sparking accusations of sexism from her supporters. But a Sudanese court upheld her appeal and she was reinstated.

Abdel Mahmoud's small party wants equality for women and is pushing for Sudan to pass a law ensuring that a percentage of the profits from oil and other resources gets passed on to the Sudanese people. Abdel Mahmoud is campaigning on a platform of change: she wants to change her country's international image and bring it in from the cold.

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To read the complete news story please visit Al Jazeera.


Handbook for Women Candidates

This Handbook for Women Candidates is the result of a series of workshops and meetings with women candidates and women active in political parties in Khartoum. It contains a toolkit on election campaigning and public speaking and is drafted specifically to meet the needs of candidates in emerging democracies.

Election: Sudan

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-17 10:05
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Sudan Sudan elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. Elections for the unicameral, 3SDG.gif60-member National Assembly were last held in December 2000. To read further on the politics in Sudan please visit ACE Electoral Knowledge Network. The first round of Presidential elections will take place on April 11, 2010. The Sudan National Election Commission released the following manuals to assist citizens understand the voting process: - Polling and Counting Guide - An Election Reporting Handbook - Civic and Voter Education Guidebook. We invite individuals and other organizations from Sudan working in the area of promoting women in politics to share their views, agenda for the political parties and campaigns on iKNOW Politics.

Sudan: Sudan extends deadline for election nominations

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Sun, 2010-01-24 01:00

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Sudan has extended the deadline for nominations in the first multi-party vote in 24 years after candidates said they did not have enough time to prepare.Elections would go ahead as scheduled on April 11, 2010.

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To read more, please visit Reuters Africa

Sudan: UN Mission aims at role for women in Sudan’s political processes

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2009-07-16 22:00

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Sixty participants at an UN-hosted workshop in Khartoum deliberated on strategies for enhancing women’s participation in elections that might occur next year. The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) organized the workshop in collaboration with the Women Empowerment for Peace and Development Network. According to a statement from the Mission, the event had aimed "to support women’s participation in post-conflict political processes, including electoral process."

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For more informations, please visit Sudantribune