Voter outreach must be a focal point of any campaign, as ensuring voter turnout requires persuasion. Important components of voter outreach include: Raising issues of concern; educating voters on such issues and a candidate’s overall platform; registering voters and mobilizing them to vote for a candidate or an issue.
"If I had only known that when I was young," or "if they had only told me" are just some of the statements made by many women who seek assistance at the centre for victims of gender violence set up by the local government in a town on the outskirts of the Argentine capital. The survey on gender violence among adolescents noted that one out of four women in Argentina has been the victim of some kind of violence, and that in 2010, at least 260 "femicides" – murders in a context of gender violence – were committed in this country of 40 million people, almost all of them by the victims' current or former partners.
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iKNOW Politics was presented at the workshop on strengthening women’s participation and leadership in political parties on November 1-5, 2010; host by The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, (NDI), in Pretoria, South Africa
iKNOW Politics was presented at the workshop on strengthening women’s participation and leadership in political parties on November 1-5, 2010; host by The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, (NDI), in Pretoria, South Africa. Eighteen women from political parties in Zambia and Lesotho attended this worshop. The Workshop provided a unique opportunity for women from different countries and parties to network, share experiences and learn from one another.
During the Workshop, women from different, have shared experiences and learnt from one another. The workshop aimed to increase women’s political participation in Southern Africa through capacity building training. The Workshop helped to develop the political skills, including campaigning, advocacy, leadership, media relations and fundraising necessary for women party members to participate more effectively and meaningfully in politics and take on leadership roles.
iKNOW Politics was presented to the audience and participants registered online and started to exchange in the discussion circle related to the workshop. iKNOW politics bookmarks and brochures were distribute to participants. They will maintain the dialogue through iKNOW Politics.
An illiterate peasant who is a mother of nine, Jori had made a bid for the PB-25 Jafarabad seat in the Sindh provincial assembly that had suddenly been vacated with the killing of its occupant, Sardarzada Rustam Jamali.
Few had expected her to win in the by-elections held on Mar. 10. But Jori nevertheless piqued public interest, being the first female to run for office in feudal and male-dominated Jafarabad.
"She has kept up with the tradition of great Pakistani women leaders alive, like Fatima Jinnah (sister of the founder of the nation Mohammad Ali Jinnah) and (the late former Pakistan premier) Benazir Bhutto of challenging traditional and dictatorial norms," Anis Haroon, chairwoman of the National Commission on the Status of Women, told IPS approvingly. "Even if she lost, it’s a breakthrough for Pakistani women."
Ms. Mu Sochua is a member of a new generation of women who are working their way into the political systems of countries across Asia and elsewhere, from local councils to national assemblies and cabinet positions.
A former minister of women’s affairs, she did as much as anyone to put women’s issues on the agenda of Cambodia as it emerged in the 1990s from decades of war and mass killings. But she lost her public platform in 2004 when she broke with the government, and she is now finding it as difficult to promote her ideas as it is to simply gain attention as a candidate.
"The quota was very important in the previous elections because we live in a male-dominated society and the quota was necessary to give women a chance to have a political role," al-Douri told The Associated Press at the offices of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite slum of Sadr City, where the prayers were held last week.
"But in the future this quota should be removed and women should compete equally with men, because women politicians have proven their competence and reliability in politics," said al-Douri, who is running for a second term on the slate of al-Sadr's party.
After long days of intense canvassing; of lobbying ministers and neglecting her family and children, Boygah thought she would be nominated for the post of chairperson of the Pamplemousses/Rivière du Rempart District Council, in northern Mauritius. "Unfortunately, when the time came the party preferred a man. I was really hurt," she recalled.
Minister of State for Education, Hajiya Aishatu Jibril Dukku who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Bayero Universityia a professional educationist. "I believe gradually even for the elective posts that women are gradually coming up, we only need to showcase ourselves better. We also need to cooperate so that we justify the saying that whatever a man can do a woman can do even better. We need the support of the men, we need to be more confident and we need to show that we are better managers of anything be at an organization or in the private or public sector."
Sunita was chosen as part of a seven-member village committee to look into the water crisis before she became the sarpanch. Under the 'Jal Swarajya Prakalp', a government aided project, she worked closely with officials from the district and water supply department and undertook projects including conservation, laying of water pipelines and desilting water bodies that was implemented by the villagers who worked for free.
