Amina Mohammed has risen from humble beginnings in Nigeria to become the most powerful woman in the United Nations
The pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on women and girls' access to sexual and reproductive health services, writes Asa Regner,
This article is the first in a two-part series examining the impact of gender quotas.
Lady Astor and Lord Astor returned to London from their American trip this evening.
This study applied a conceptual framework that uses a comparative and gendered approach to estimate the cost of politics, using a set of pre-identified variables regularly incurred by both candidates seeking political office and elected representatives while in office.
(CNN)- Samoa's first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office.
Women Deliver President/CEO Katja Iversen and the first female president of Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde, discuss women in leadership and links between sexual and reproductive health and rights and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to advance gender equa
Women have historically faced great
By Gaby Hinsliff,
The results of the 2022 Papua New Guinea elections confirm that women will once again sit in PNG’s Parliament — after a hiatus of five years.
Why are there so few women at the top levels of politics?
Nigeria has one of the lowest rates of female political representation in the world. This culture is established and reinforced early.
Satoko Kishimoto sets sights on ‘radical change’ in Japan, where only 2% of local government leaders are women.
The webinar "Gender parity in politics: the state of play" took place on 29 May.
A lack of legal regulation and the inefficiency of the Bosnian justice system mean Bosnian women in politics face little or no protection against gender-based abuse online.
The preview of the League of Tunisian Women Voters latest documentary, directed by Tunisian actress Anissa Daoud, on the achievements and struggles of Tunisian women to bring real change to their s
By Antonio Guterres,
The COVID-19 pandemic affects everyone, everywhere.
Despite the upheaval of the Taliban takeover, the ‘group of six’ are finding ways to tackle the political and humanitarian crisis.
On both sides of Montenegro’s ideological divide, women politicians face sexism, abuse, and discrimination on a daily basis. And experts say it’s only getting worse.
BJP Mahila Morcha president Vanathi Srinivasan is confident Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fulfil the BJP’s promise of a legislation to reserve seats for women in Parliament and Legislative Assemblies, and says he always urges state units to ensur
50:50 Parliament launched #AskHerTo
International IDEA's Senior Advisor for Democracy and Inclusion, Rumbidzai Kandawasvika-Nhundu, shares a message for International Women’s Day 2023.
The IPU and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) organized a panel on Where do parliaments stand in the fight against sexism and
This is a video by the Council of Europe.
In 2016 at the launch of the #NotTheCost campaign, NDI presented a list of strategies to address and prevent violence against women in politics, focusing on a wide range of potential change-makers, from the global to the grassroots levels.
For International Women's Day 2018, International IDEA sat down with female politicians from South Africa and Zambia to discuss rising above party lin
Sebretary General of International IDEA Yves Leterme discusses why we should commemorate and celebrate International Women's Day.
Understanding the role traditional media and, increasingly, social media outlets are playing in the promotion of more gender-inclusive and participatory democracies and what we can all do to speed up progress is urgent, and critical.
