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Sudan: Sudan extends deadline for election nominations

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Sun, 2010-01-24 02:00
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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


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

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2009-07-16 23:00
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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


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Sudan: Women Ready to Take Their Place

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2009-06-24 13:44
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Though the 25 percent representation of women at all levels of government as laid out in the CPA is generally being respected in numerical terms, not all states in South Sudan have achieved the threshold. But even in the six states where the quota has been achieved, many argue that the 25 percent is being used as a smoke screen where pliable women are put into positions of power, while more independent-minded women continue to be marginalised from leadership positions.

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To read the full story, please visit IPS News.


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Sudan: 'Sudan Empowers Women,' Says MP

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2009-05-11 09:56
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In a meeting yesterday, South Sudan legislator, Dr. Richard Mulla, revealed that they have a policy to allocate women 25 percent of the seats in the country's legislative assembly. Dr. Mulla, who is part of a Sudanese delegation in Botswana, on a mission to learn how the Botswana parliament runs its Public Accounts Committee said that the decision, which is expected to be implemented by February next year after the general elections, was in recognition of women's contributions to war efforts.

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To read the full article, please visit Mmegi Online's Website.


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Submitted by emyeyo on Tue, 2009-04-28 04:50

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Consolidated Response on Women’s Political Participation in Traditional and Conservative Societies

This consolidated response highlights types of positive action measures, advocacy campaigns, women’s movements, and educational opportunities that help women in traditional and conservative societies to overcome some of the barriers that they face in politics and public life.

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Consolidated Response on Gender Quotas in African Countries

This consolidated response highlights various types of quotas adopted in African countries and provides details on the implementation of quotas under different electoral systems. The response also includes several annexes with data on quotas based on country and on quota type.

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Call for Papers: Conference on Arab-American Women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2008-07-02 08:18
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Inviting papers dealing with different issues of Arab-American Women’s lives, including immigration, history (especially the early history of Arab-American women), settlement, organizations, professions, gender issues, marriage and family, health, religion, involvement in society and politics, status within the Arab-American community and the larger American society, successes and failures, general accomplishments, etc. Papers which analyze Arab-American literature, music and the arts are also invited.

Abstracts, not to exceed one page, should be submitted to Michael Suleiman at suleiman@ksu.edu. Call for papers deadline: August 31, 2008. Final drafts should be ready and submitted by January 15, 2009.


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Sudan

Keep people ignorant or give them bad quality eduction,lock their minds and their eyes, keep them very busy running after daily bread and salt, and make them concerned with malaria and tuberculosis.

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