... But one woman from Bajaur, a strife-ridden area bordering Afghanistan, has stunned her community by announcing that she is running for a ...
News - iKNOW Politics - 2016-06-12 20:10 - 0 comments
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban ambushed a convoy of a female Afghan senator ...
News - iKNOW Politics - 2016-04-17 14:25 - 0 comments
... winning Sharmeen Obaid from Pakistan, and Sima Samar from Afghanistan. Remaining true to our motto – ‘taking action’ – this ...
Event - iKNOW Politics - 2017-01-17 20:19 - 0 comments
... she knows exactly how to end the long-simmering conflict in Afghanistan: build more factories. A logistics company owner by profession and ...
News - iKNOW Politics - 2015-11-29 17:55 - 0 comments
... times, and more recently during the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has been manipulated to justify invasions. ...
Resource - iKNOW Politics - 2015-01-14 05:21 - 0 comments
A record number of women are running in Afghanistan’s critical parliamentary elections next month despite many being ...
News - iKNOW Politics - 2015-01-13 23:10 - 0 comments
... including most Muslim countries [with the exceptions of Afghanistan and Yemen], have significant and broad reservations to CEDAW that ...
News - iKNOW Politics - 2014-07-26 22:26 - 0 comments
... 11% of seats in both houses, less than Pakistan at 21% and Afghanistan at 28%, research by the Inter-Parliamentary Union group shows. ...
News - iKNOW Politics - 2014-04-28 10:29 - 0 comments
... 11% of seats in both houses, less than Pakistan at 21% and Afghanistan at 28% (IPU) ...
Fact of the Week - iKNOW Politics - 2014-04-28 10:03
... national action plans for resolution 1325. Still, women from Afghanistan and East Timor to Haiti and Sudan continue to pressure governments ...
Resource - iKNOW Politics - 2014-04-23 12:28