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Thursday, February 20, 2020
UN chief calls for realizing aspirations on women empowerment
News Ghana
High-level experts and policymakers have issued a clarion call to African leaders to ensure the needs and perspectives of the continent’s women and girls are fully integrated into efforts to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies. Although in...
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
Inauguration UNWOMEN exhibition “African Women and Political Leadership”
The exhibit pays tribute to the great courage of women in a particularly difficult and patriarchal continent. They have been at the forefront of ensuring peace and security, however their contribution is not often recognized and their representation...
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
Guide / Training Material
HeForShe Action Kit for Parliaments
This Action Kit has been developed to guide the overall implementation of the HeForShe solidarity movement. It provides general information about the campaign, simple-to-follow implementation steps and a list of accessible campaign tools and...
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Monday, February 10, 2020
Liberia: Activist encourages women to rise for elective posts
Liberian Observer
For future elections, one of which is expected to be held in October this year, the Executive Director of Paramount Young Women Initiative, Facia B. Harris, is encouraging young women of Liberia to make use of every opportunity available to them to...
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Thursday, February 06, 2020
64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the United Nations’ largest gathering on gender equality and women’s rights and is the single largest forum for UN Member States, civil society organizations, and other international actors to build...
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Thursday, February 06, 2020
Regional seminar on the SDGs for Asia-Pacific Parliaments
The National Assembly of Pakistan and the IPU are jointly organizing a regional seminar for the Asia-Pacific region’s parliaments entitled Development for all: Parliament’s road map on the Sustainable Development Goals. This event is the third in a...
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Friday, January 31, 2020
Annual Parliamentary Meeting at the 64th Commission on the Status of Women
The Parliamentary Meeting at the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, hosted by the IPU and UN Women, will contribute to the Commission’s main theme, Beijing+25: Realizing gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls...
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Friday, January 31, 2020
2020 Annual Parliamentary Hearing at the UN
Education as a key to peace and sustainable development: Toward the implementation of SDG 4. Education has long been recognized as a necessary precondition for sustainable development in all its dimensions – economic, social and environmental....
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
FG gets report on women’s political participation in 2019 elections
The Guardian
A delegation of national and international partners, led by United Nations (UN) women, has presented to the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, a detailed report of a national conference to assess lessons learnt on women’s political...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
How to ensure election-related sexual violence never happens again
The Star
In the aftermath of the 2007-08 post-election violence, the Commission of Inquiry into the Post-Election Violence (Waki Commission) documented more than 900 sexual violence cases perpetrated by security agents and civilians against women, girls, men...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Africa needs more female leaders
Vatican News
In many African countries, it is time for elections this year. Sadly, many of the continent’s social “social structures, such as those in politics, religion and culture, sometimes constitute real obstacles in the promotion of female leadership,”...
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Monday, January 13, 2020
Marlène Schiappa: “For generations, we have been nominating men just because they are men”
UN Women
Marlène Schiappa, Minister of State for Gender Equality and the Fight against Discrimination in France, attended the 25th year Regional Review Meeting of the Beijing Platform for Action for the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Region. She...
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Friday, December 27, 2019
Liberia: Women leaders launch network with call for female to step-up
Front Page Africa
The Liberia Women Leaders Network (LWLN), the local chapter of the African Women Leaders Network (ALWN), was officially launched on Wednesday, December 18 in Monrovia. The launch, which took place at the Ministerial Complex in Congo Town, brought...
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Friday, December 20, 2019
Report / White Paper
Breaking cycles of violence: Gaps in prevention of and response to electoral-related sexual violence in Kenya
Relief Web
Introduction I was targeted because my husband is from a different community that was perceived to hold a differing political opinion from the one of the dominant community we live in.’ Survivor of sexual violence during the 2017 elections...
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Friday, December 20, 2019
Ethiopian women participation in politics up but a lot needs to be done
Addis Standard
The number of Ethiopian women in the national legislative and executive branches has grown significantly since Ethiopia conducted its first parliamentary election in 1995. However a lot more needs to be done to make sure women are proportionally...
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Friday, December 20, 2019
I am Generation Equality: Francy Jaramillo Piedrahita, human rights defender and peacebuilder
UN Women
Billions of people across the world stand on the right side of history every day. They speak up, take a stand, mobilize, and take big and small actions to advance women’s rights. This is Generation Equality. I am Generation Equality because… In...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Guide / Training Material
Guidelines for the elimination of sexism, harassment and violence against women in parliament
Inter-Parliamentary Union
These guidelines offer advice and practical information for parliamentarians and parliamentary staff on how to transform parliaments into gender-sensitive environments free from sexism and abuse.  Click here to listen the guidelines.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
IPU publishes new guidelines to eliminate sexism and harassment in parliament
Inter-Parliamentary Union
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the IPU has published a comprehensive set of guidelines to combat sexual harassment and violence against women in parliament. The guidelines offer advice and...
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