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Strong institutions are integral to any government, particularly one emerging from violent conflict. The process of institution-building occurs at national and local levels, cutting across sectors and themes of governance. It is important for women to participate in ministries, commissions and offices — not only as administrative staff, but also as decision makers. Given the multitude of post-conflict tasks tackled by national institutions, women’s presence is vital to ensuring that transitional governments address women’s needs and concerns.

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Gender Equality and Good Governance : Improving Services for Women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-03-11 13:57
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New York
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USA
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Knightsbridge Room, Tudor Hotel New York, 304 East 42nd Street, New York City, New York 10017
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A Parliamentarians’ Handbook on the Small Arms Issue

In a landmark step, parliamentarians from countries in Central, East and the Horn of Africa, gathering at a conference organised by UNDP and AWEPA on 26-28 November 2003, reached an agreement on a Plan of Action for parliamentarians, aimed at reducing the illicit distribution of small arms and light weapons. In this Mombasa Plan of Action, parliamentarians agreed to urge their governments to adjust national legislation to create more efficient control on small arms. This booklet is earmarked to be a practical handbook. It seeks to serve parliamentarians during their efforts to make further progress on the issue of small arms and light weapons. The booklet contains information on what has been achieved in Mombasa, introduces parliamentarians who are new to the issue to what it entails, and elaborates on what the problem of small arms means for African countries in Central, East- and the Horn of Africa. It also seeks to assess what these countries might contribute to solve the problem, in particular with regard to legislation.

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Enhancing Women’s Political Participation: A Policy Note for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

This Policy Note presents a set of pragmatic recommendations that will enable policy makers to enhance women’s political participation in the region. These measures are the product of six national roundtable discussions organized in 2008 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine as well as a regional conference in Turkey in December 2008. This Policy Note also presents the current status of, and opportunities for women’s participation in leadership and decision-making processes in the region. Based on the evidence and regional data collected and analysed, this Policy Note is for parliamentarians, government officials, legislators, political party members, civil society organizations working on enhancing women’s political participation and media with the recommended policy and action options in the following three areas:

1) Legal and institutional frameworks to promote women’s political participation;

2) Mechanisms and strategies to promote women’s political participation; and

3) Partnerships for women’s political participation: civil society organizations and the media.

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International IDEA: More women in politics for complete democracy

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-03-01 09:22
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International IDEA secretary general Vidar Helgesen said his organisation is committed to addressing this challenge where women are not adequately represented in spheres of power. IDEA is in Botswana to discuss the audit report on Botswana's general elections held last year.

Helgesen met opposition politicians and ruling party politicians with a view to strengthening cooperation between Botswana and IDEA and discuss the African Union Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance.

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Women’s Participation in Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Sun, 2010-02-28 21:03
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Colombo
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Sri Lanka
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South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) Sri Lanka Chapter
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The event seeks to broaden public discussion on the important subject of increasing women’s representation in politics and decision making. With the Parliamentary election coming up in a few weeks, South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), Sri Lanka Chapter, believes the issue of women’s participation in politics is both timely and relevant, especially in view of the very low percentage of women in political institutions in Sri Lanka and their resultant inability to influence decision making.

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Nepal: The Political Role of Nepalese Women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Sat, 2010-01-30 13:11
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Nepalese women are playing a greater role in politics and economics these days, but their participation in politics is far from the 50 percent that would represent equal and fair representation. More than 95 percent of Nepalese women have been affected by the violence.

Women's organizations nowadays encourage women to participate in political affairs, but they are still held back by the parochial culture, particularly in the villages. It is a positive sign that women are being recruited for the army and other posts, but still women's participation in politics remains nominal. This applies to both urban and rural areas.

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Afghanistan: Reintegrating the Taliban: where does it leave Afghan women?

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-01-28 11:08
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At Thursday’s London conference on Afghanistan, more than 50 countries will to try flesh out the details for a plan to gradually hand security to Afghans, which involved strengthening and expanding Afghan security forces, improving the way donor aid to Afghanistan is spent and reintegrating Taliban fighters. But where do women fit into these plans, especially if the Taliban are to be involved?

On Wednesday, groups representing Afghan women warned the international community against pursuing a peace deal with the Taliban. “I have great fears, and I am greatly confused … 2001 was a very clear signal that there is no more room for conservative elements to rule in Afghanistan,” Homa Sabri of the United Nation’s agency for women, UNIFEM, told Reuters in London.

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Afghanistan: Afghan Women Warn Against Possible Deal With Taliban

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-01-27 15:01
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Groups representing Afghan women warned the international community on Wednesday against pursuing a peace deal with the Taliban, fearing a return to the austere Islamist rule that saw women banned from education and work.

Women from a United Nations agency, the Institute for Inclusive Security and other rights' groups told reporters in London that the progress made since 2001 should not be jeopardised by courting conservative elements.

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Sri Lanka: Many Sri Lankan Women Cast Votes to Select New President

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-01-26 15:14
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The significance of the voting on Tuesday was that the active participation of women in voting. Females were seen waiting in long queues to cast their votes.

Polling agents said there was a remarkable increase in women coming to cast their votes.

Ramyalatha Perera of Nugegoda, about 20 km away from Colombo, said she wanted to see a brighter future for her children.

"I cast my vote early in the morning. I think we, women want peace. We can not suffer any more and we want our children to live in a peaceful country,"she said.

Ramyalatha had taken her 80-year-old mother, who suffer from arthritis, on a wheelchair with the help of her husband to cast her vote.

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To read the complete story please visit CriEnglish.Com.


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Iraq: Iraqi parliament approves new election law

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2009-12-07 12:25
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The Iraqi lawmakers unanimously agreed on Sunday on new version of the electoral law that would govern the country's parliamentary polls early next year.

The parliament held an extra-ordinary session late on Sunday night after a long day of haggling among the political blocs about the amendments needed to the electoral law in an attempt to avoid a second veto to the law by the Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi.

According to the approved version, the number of seats in the coming parliament will be 325 instead of the 275 in the current parliament. 310 of which will be allotted for the country's 18 provinces and the remaining 15 seats will go as eight seats reserved for the Iraqi minorities and seven for the blocs who garnered national support.

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To read the complete news story please visit China View.


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Comparative Experiences and Resources on the Gender Dimensions of Electoral Law, Administration and Electoral Management

Submitted by Randi Davis on Tue, 2009-10-20 15:08

Women’s civic and political equality are central to democratic development, peace building and post conflict reconstruction.

Training Programme on Media and Peace-building 2009

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2009-10-06 08:36
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Bujumbura, Burundi
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Burundi
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Burundi
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According to the organisers of this training, Radio La Benevolencija HTF ("la Benevolencija"), this training programme draws on their work in the Great Lakes Region (Rwanda, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)) which applies psychological research to support violence prevention, peace-building, and trauma healing through the targeted use of communication outlets. The training programme for 2009 focuses on mid-career media professionals of the Great Lakes region and is designed to encourage exchanges between international and regional experts on core issues relating to the media, and peace building and consolidation initiatives in the region.

The training consists of four courses, each five days long. There will also be an introductory lecture on universal psychological dynamics related to hate speech and propaganda and ways to counteract them, including transitional justice mechanisms and media deontology in election periods. The courses are as follows:

* Media Literacy, Propaganda, Manipulation and Hate speech
* Media Law, Deontology and Ethics Codes in Times of Elections
* Transitional Justice, Traditional Justice and Impunity
* Media, Mass Violence and Peace: The Role of the Media in Elections and Conflict

Registration Information

Interested candidates can request more information and application forms from the contacts below.

Deadline for application: September 15, 2009.

Some scholarships are available for students participating from the Great Lakes Region (Rwanda, Burundi, and East Congo).

To read further please visit Labenevolencija.


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USA: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton hails Indian women peacekeepers' role in Liberia

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2009-10-05 12:09
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US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Wednesday hailed Indian women peacekeepers' role in preventing violence against women
and girls in Liberia, saying they have set an example that must be emulated in UN peacekeeping missions across the world.

"I recently met with an all women police unit from India in Liberia who provide an excellent example of the steps a UN mission can take in cooperation with the host government to prevent violence against women and girls," Clinton told the Security Council.

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"The Indian unit has helped to motivate more Liberian women to participate in a campaign against rape, launched jointly by UN and the Liberian government," she said, adding the women peacekeepers have "set an example that must be repeated in UN peacekeeping missions all over the world".

To read further please visit Times of India.


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