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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
The Iraqi Women Network statement on International Women's Day 2016
As Global Women Movement celebrates International Women's day on March 8th, while everyone is silent listening to the anthem of freedom and peace, and what has been achieved in progress toward full substantive equality in rights, Iraqi women...
Thursday, September 25, 2014
The participation of indigenous women in the United Nations General Assembly
By Mariana Jardim Andrade Leones              The participation of indigenous women in their societies over the last years, especially in the Latin America has been continually increasing. This achievement is the result of the efforts of...
Thursday, September 04, 2014
The link between women’s economic and political empowerment
By Coryn Grange               It’s easy for women to feel powerless when up against their country’s political institutions. Challenging government policy and fighting for one’s beliefs seem especially hard without sufficient resources to do so....
Monday, September 01, 2014
The latest French government, a government with an equal number of male and female ministers
 The latest French government, a government with an equal number of male and female ministers by Lucile Huguet, iKNOW Politics writer (Photo: NIVIERE/SIPA) The Valls II cabinet             France will still have to wait to see a woman leading the...
Christine Lagarde
Saturday, August 30, 2014
The 3 L’s of women’s empowerment
By Christine Lagarde A former French minister for various economic portfolios – including finance and employment, agriculture and fisheries, and trade – Christine Lagarde was the first woman to become finance minister of a G8 economy and is the...
Sunday, August 24, 2014
The Patriarchal Barrier to Women in Politics
By Aswath Komath The lack of representation for women in politics is an evident truth all over the world. It is only a variation of degree in which this fact changes all across the world. So some countries may have relatively more women involved in...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
The Elephant of Patriarchy in Political Parties
One of the major issues that persist throughout the world is that women’s physical presence and voices in positions of power and decision making within political parties remains weak and almost non-existent. Even though women participate visibly and...

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