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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.
NDI: Armenian women set priorities for increasing political participation
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2011-07-12 02:24
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More than 300 Armenian women from different political parties, civic organizations, government agencies and geographic regions came together for a two-day conference in Yerevan last month to discuss policy solutions to the challenges they all face. Together, they called for increasing women’s political and economic participation, better access to health care and a reduction in domestic violence.
The “Women in Politics” conference, produced a draft policy platform that women’s groups and political parties can use as a blueprint for change. In the political and economic areas. In addition, all but a few conference participants signed a letter to the president of Armenia requesting a 30 percent quota for women on political party electoral lists.
Armenia: U.S. Envoy Urges Greater Role For Armenian Women
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 19:23
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U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch made a case for a greater involvement of women in Armenia's political life on Wednesday, saying that is a necessary condition for democratization and the rule of law. Yovanovitch said political and economic reforms in the country will not produce desired results as long as Armenian women remain underrepresented in all branches of government and political structures. “Political systems in which women take leadership roles in politics and in government have lower levels of corruption,” she said.
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Armenia: Armenian PM calls on parties to include more women in candidate lists
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 18:50
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Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan calls on all political forces to include more women in the list of candidates standing for parliamentary election. At Friday session the government adopted strategic program of gender policy for 2011-2015 providing for increase in number of women in executive and legislative branches to 30%. Premier Sargsyan also said that hearings and debates will be organized in the parliament.
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Armenia : Greater role for women in politics
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 13:37
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U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch made a case for a greater involvement of women in Armenia’s political life, saying that is a necessary condition for democratization and the rule of law.
Yovanovitch said political and economic reforms in the country will not produce desired results as long as Armenian women remain underrepresented in all branches of government and political structures. “Political systems in which women take leadership roles in politics and in government have lower levels of corruption,” she said.
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NDI: Armenian women outline priorities to increase their political role
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 13:05
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More than 300 Armenian women leaders called for increased support for women’s political and economic participation in the country following a two-day conference here on women in politics. At a news conference, the women released a document outlining the top priorities identified at a nationwide conference, “Women in Politics,” hosted by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) with support from the United States Agency for International Development
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NDI: Yerevan: Nat'l Conference of Women in Politics Launches
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-05-18 23:21
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Over 150 women leaders from civil society, government, academia, and political parties convened in Yerevan on May 18 for a two-day conference organized by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and USAID, with support from the British Embassy and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The conference on “Supporting Women’s Political Participation in Armenia: A Nationwide Women’s Conference and Women’s Platform” aimed to bring greater attention to women’s issues and increase women’s political representation and participation in Armenia.
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Armenia: 46.6% of respondents believe Armenian women are discriminated
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-04-07 00:11
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Public opinion polls show 46.6% of respondents believe Armenian women are discriminated, while 41.1% disagree with this opinion, said head of Caucasus Research Center. Presenting a “Survey on Gender Dimension of Civic and Political Participation in Armenia” Hovhannes Hovhannisyan said research was conducted last year among 1,200 residents of
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Armenia: Female leaders start а short-term sitting protest
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2011-04-04 06:07
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A group of women intelligentsia has initiated a daily silent sit-in at Yerevan’s central Liberty Square, which according to its organizers, is the logical continuation of Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian’s 15-day hunger strike staged in the same location last month.
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