The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded $1.8 million to the National Democratic Institute to support the role of women in Nepal's transition to democracy. The two-year program will strengthen the ability of elected women to engage effectively in the Constituent Assembly, Nepal's new constitution drafting representative and legislative body, and to effectively represent their constituencies.

In July 2008, NDI organized the inaugural MENA Regional Young Women Leaders Academy in Doha, Qatar, which gathered together young women leaders from the Middle East and North Africa. The young women, who included students, civil society leaders and political activists, gained the tools and skills necessary to become political leaders.

One of the ways that International IDEA promotes the participation of women in politics here in the Andean Region, a seminar was ogranized on the 19th and 20th of May in Cartagena, Colombia.

The Regional seminar for Latin American parliaments on the theme "Women Shaping Politics: Gender, Parliamentary Representation and Legislative Agenda" was organized by the Parliament of Uruguay, the I

Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Leslie Campbell, hailed Morocco's reforms promoting women's participation in politics and electoral transparency.

To mark International Women's Day tomorrow, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Congressional Human Rights Caucus held a joint forum Wednesday to review the political landscape women shared in 2007.

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Today, women account for almost 40 per cent of the total workforce. However, women remain disadvantaged in the workplace, their employment being preponderantly unpaid or underpaid compared to men's. Women and Work was the general topic of the second Seminar for members of parliamentary committees dealing with the status of women and gender equality, organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in cooperation with the International Labour Organisation.