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Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Ministerial appointments: women, youths deserves better representation – group tells Tinubu
The News Guru
A group under the auspices of Progressive Ambassador for APC project, has calls on President Bola Tinubu to consider women and youths in his cabinet. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on on Monday, Ikechukwu Norbet, the group’s national...
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Figures by the All-Women’s Action Society (Awam) and PantauPRU15 show that in the last general election, 7.3 million women made up 50.4 per cent of registered voters but only 251 out of 2,333 candidates were women. - NSTP file pic
Monday, November 07, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Malaysia still far behind in women's political participation
The Straits Times
MALAYSIA is viewed as progressive where gender equality and advancing women's rights are concerned. The government has supported women's empowerment and will continue to do so. Despite the progress, however, several issues and challenges exist, and...
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A image of Zhina Mahsa Amini at a candlelit vigil following her death, outside the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
Monday, October 17, 2022
Many Iranian women demand political change amid decades-long grievances
Reuters
DUBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Like millions of other Iranian women, retired teacher Somayyeh has been repressed by the country's hardline Islamic laws for decades but was too frightened to stand up to ruling clerics - until Mahsa Amini's death in...
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Juliana Mittelbach hopes to be the first Black woman to hold office in Paraná state | Mittelbach campaign committee (Open Democracy)
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
More Black women are running for office in Brazil than ever. Can they win?
Open Democracy
Juliana Mittelbach, a 40-year-old hospital nurse from the city of Curitiba, Brazil, had long considered a career in politics until the COVID-19 crisis forced a decision. She had noticed it was “mostly Black people” who died. “They were the ones who...
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mabel chinomona
Monday, January 31, 2022
Interviews
Mabel Chinomona
Mabel Chinomona is the President of the Senate of Zimbabwe. This interview was conducted on 6 September 2021, in Vienna (Austria), during the 13th Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament. Click on the Settings button for subtitles in Arabic, French,...
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Friday, March 01, 2019
Malawi’s political parties snub women
Johannesburg, South Africa (ADV) – A Malawian NGO Gender Coordination Network (NGO-GCN) has expressed concern on political parties that snubbed women in the internal election processes with many female parliamentary candidates forced to stand as...
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Monday, March 13, 2017
Mauritian women MPs work to raise awareness on gender violence
A group of women 12 MPs from the Réseau des femmes parlementaires mauritaniennes (Network of Mauritian Women Parliamentarians/REFPAM) organized a “caravan”, or outreach visits, to provinces in the country to reach out to local and religious leaders...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Data and Statistics
Mapping Scandinavian Research about Women in Public Life, published in English 1970-2015
This mapping is made for the benefit of researchers who want to learn about Gender Studies in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden on the theme of women/gender in public life. Most of the research literature - especially...
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Younger women and the 2015 election
Monday, November 24, 2014
Millennials, not Mumsnet: Younger women and the 2015 election (United Kingdom)
Should politicians be appearing on programmes like the X Factor to reach new audiences? Or should they be breaking down complex political subjects and putting them in simpler terms to get more potential voters interested? These were some of the...
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Howard Student Association
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Moments of silence for Michael Brown
Photo-Ikenna Ikeotuonye and the Howard University Student Association. Organiser Feminista Jones says that the National Moment of Silence, known as #NMOS14 on social media, was created in the wake of the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the...
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Monday, November 25, 2013
Meet India’s Gulabi Gang – Female Activists for Change
While you may witness injustice on a daily basis, when was the last time you decided to interfere and help change a stranger’s situation? Either afraid of societal reprimand or confused on how to make a difference, many elect to ignore the pressing...
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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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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Momgolia: The Collective Action of Mongolia’s Women
The focus on a few specific men in the history of Mongolia can be attributed to the long focus on a monarchy-led country—with few leaders exercising great control over the majority. Socialism changed this focus to a degree, investing in educating...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Report / White Paper
Mobile Technologies and Empowerment: Enhancing human development through participation and innovation
The simplicity of new mobile platforms requiring only a basic mobile phone with SMS capacity has allowed their adoption all over the world — from South Africa, to India, to Mexico — to monitor elections, track violence and crime, provide...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Guide / Training Material
Monitoring Electronic Technologies in Electoral Processes
This guide aims to increase the understanding of civic and political activists regarding what transparency measures to demand in establishing safeguards concerning electronic electoral technologies, as well as what skills their organizations will...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Guide / Training Material
Manual on Globalisation and Women
This discussion guide aims at serving the community organizers and trainers of Asian rural and indigenous organizations as a tool for discussion. It aims to develop a common understanding of globalization; presents critique of globalization and its...
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Monday, July 07, 2008
Website / Database
MDG3 Global Call to Action Campaign
MDG3 Global Call to Action campaign focuses on the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG 3) on gender equality and women's economic empowerment. Half-way to 2015 we are still far from achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals to halve...
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