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Kurdish politician Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman Photo: Linkedin/Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Meet the Kurdish female politician fighting the Islamic State
Kurdish politician Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman tells Sofia Barbarani how her family were murdered in a terrorist attack and why she's battling Isil. To read the article published on 20th February 2015, please click here.
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Maissan Hassan
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Maissan Hassan
Maissan Hassan is the Programs Manager at the Women and Memory Forum;a nongovernmental research centre in Egypt that focuses on gender issues in Arab cultural history. She is an adviser in the MENA Region for FRIDA: The Young Feminist Fund and a co...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
MASTER IN ELECTORAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
MEPA is a one-year, post-graduate programme in comprehensive advanced learning on electoral processes for current and aspiring election professionals. The Programme, delivered with the support of International IDEA, is especially beneficial for...
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Friday, July 04, 2014
More than quotas are needed for women in politics
While Lebanon suffers from a paucity of female politicians, establishing a quota is not the only way to bolster women’s participation in the political sphere, say members of UNDP’s Lebanese Electoral Assistance Program. Parties from all across the...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2014
Interviews
Maha Almuneef - Breaking stereotypes, reaching goals
Maha Almuneef, a 53-year-old mother of three living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is a Board-certified physician with a vision: ending violence against women. Maha, undeterred by the traditional image of a woman’s place in society, earned her medical...
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Thursday, June 05, 2014
Mentorship programs to support candidates and elected female MPs beyond training and study tours
"Whenever I am asked what the missing link is between a promising businessperson and a successful one, mentoring comes to mind; if you are looking to make your way in business, try to find a mentor. If you are in a position to share the skills you...
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Morocco, UN Women Sign Partnership Agreement to Promote Gender Equality
The Ministry of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social Development, and UN Women signed, Wednesday in Rabat, a partnership agreement to promote the institutionalization of the principles of gender equality in the public policy making process in...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Morocco women march to demand gender equality
A group of around 800 Moroccans, mostly women, staged a march in the capital Rabat on Sunday demanding that a constitutional guarantee of gender equality be applied in the kingdom. The march from the city centre to parliament was led by the Civil...
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Monday, February 24, 2014
Meet Egypt’s first female political party leader
A flicker of hope for women across Egypt may have been sparked on Friday, after the first female to head a political party in the country was elected. Breaking through Egypt's political glass ceiling, Hala Shukrallah succeeded former Egyptian Vice...
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Monday, August 19, 2013
More women gearing up for poll challenge, Bahrain
The study, A View of Bahraini Women's Political Stance, was made by Bahraini Nooh Khalifa, who is a renowned author and media expert. A total of 300 Bahraini women from different political backgrounds and age groups were surveyed. It was completed...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Muslim Women Redefine Feminism
Marginalized by both a patriarchal society and the narrow confines of Western feminist discourse, Muslim women around the world are developing their own form of activism. (We invite our users to read the complete article published April 4 2013)
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
MENA: What the Arab Spring has done for women’s equality, in one chart
We’ve been looking throughout the day at new data from the World Economic Forum on gender equality throughout the world. We found that the U.S. is finally catching up and in some places exceeding Europe on gender equality and explored the surprising...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
MENA: Questioning the Quota for Arab Women
Palestinians voted in local elections this past weekend for time since 2006, and one-fifth of seats are going to women, thanks to a new quota system for municipal councils in the West Bank.  It’s a victory for some, but for others such as Maysoun...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
MENA: Morsi Adviser: Female and Christian VPs in Egypt
There’s been a dramatic change of fate in Egypt: Mohamed Morsi was once a prisoner under President Hosni Mubarak. Now Morsi is president-elect of Egypt, at the very same time Mubarak is serving his sentence in the notorious Tora Prison. Now Egypt’s...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
MENA: Religion is not the biggest enemy for Arab women, poll finds
In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize last year, Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman thanked women of the Arab world for her medal. Without their struggle to win equal rights, she would not be there, she said. The greatest challenge in that quest is not...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East and North Africa: Deep-seated Sexism Marginalising Arab Women
Speaking at the Arab International Women's Forum (AIWF) in Dubai, professor Aicha Belarbi told delegates that due to this Arab nations continue to lag behind the rest of the world in terms of female representation in the workforce and...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East: Women Leaders of Tomorrow
More than 75 young people from Bahrain, Oman and Qatar are taking part in a three-day leadership conference which opened at the Royal Society for Women in East Riffa yesterday. The first Association for International Students in Science,...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East and North Africa: Arab Conference Targets Improving Women's Participation in Politics
A regional seminar on "Gender and Local Governance" held on March 14 in the Tunisian capital highlighted the close link between "economic and domestic development and women’s participation in local politics". Forum attendees from Tunisia,...
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