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Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Long way to go, on achieving gender equality

This week Schulz kicked off the spring forward for women conference, which aims to bring about ideas for encouraging political representation of women, with particular focus on women in Arab countries. The conference comes as world leaders gear up...

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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Women in high office: Indonesia 8, Australia 1

Indonesia’s new president Joko Widodo has appointed eight women to his cabinet, vastly outdoing the Australian government when it comes to female representation. The humble furniture maker-turned president, more accustomed to carving wooden cabinets...

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Sunday, September 07, 2014

Girl guides venture into the political jungle: Movement calls for school lessons in 'body confidence' and equal numbers of men and women in Parliament in first manifesto

The Girl Guides once taught young women to cope away from civilisation with camping trips and nature skills. Now, they are more concerned with helping them face the challenges of modern life. The youth group yesterday took its first step into...

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Demand for 33 percent representation for women on backburner, Nepal

As political parties concentrate around preparations for the Constituent Assembly (CA) election, protest programs demanding 33 percent women´s representation in the new CA has fallen under shadow. Inter Party Women Network (IPWN) had 3 weeks ago...

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SPECIAL COMPUTER TRAINING COURSE DESIGNED FOR DEAF PEOPLE IN DAMASCUS, SYRIA. PHOTO: UNDP IN SYRIA

Friday, January 11, 2013

UNDP: The Internet Gender Gap

Special computer training course designed for deaf people in Damascus, Syria. Photo: UNDP in Syria by Magdy Martinez Soliman The UN task team on the post-2015 Development Agenda has issued a first report arguing that “Globalization offers great...

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