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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
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Women are stepping up in politics
The Buffalo News
By Buffalo News Editorial Board American politics is changing, and not always in wholesome ways. But this one, if it can be sustained, augurs well for the country: In numbers never seen before, women are suiting up to campaign for public office. It’...
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Thursday, September 07, 2017
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Where Are the Female Leaders at the UN? Gender Bias Persists
By Ingvild Bode  The exhibition “HERStory: A Celebration of Leading Women in the United Nations” was held at the Unesco headquarters in Paris this summer, after it made its debut in New York last year. Designed to showcase the contributions of...
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Monday, July 24, 2017
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Women in Politics, by Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat
This opinion piece was originally published by Times of Malta on 18 July 2017 here. By Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, president of the European Public Health Association and a senior lecturer at the University of Malta. Over the past days, the issue of...
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
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Women and Ghana’s 2016 Parliamentary Election
iKNOW Politics expert Gretchen Bauer submitted the following article to be published on International Women’s Day 2017. In December 2016, Ghana held its seventh parliamentary and presidential elections since transitioning from decades of military...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
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Women MPs are the key to progress, says Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
By Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh MP The report published yesterday by the House of Commons’ Women and Equalities Committee on increasing the number of women at Westminster is an important contribution to the debate on how parliament and political parties...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016
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What difference does gender really make in the top political jobs?
Gender does make a difference – though how much depends on women’s activism and the political parties The excitement in the media and the women’s movement is noticeable these days. The UK has got its second woman prime minister, and there are good...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
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What a 21st century feminist movement should look like in Tunisia?
By iKNOW Politics Expert Ikram Ben Said Even though we are living in the 21st century, gender equality is still considered a women’s issue, in Tunisia, and policy makers are trying to avoid or postpone the conversation because they are dealing with...
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"Office of Women for Dignity" at the Zapatista Autonomous Municipality "Caracol de Oventic," Chiapas, Mexico.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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Women up in arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds embrace a new gender politics.
By Charlotte Maria Sáenz Resistance and strength manifest like weeds through cracks in Chiapas, Mexico and transnational Kurdistan where the respective Zapatista and Kurdish resistance movements are creating new gender relations as a primary part of...
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
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Women's political participation in Pakistan
By Noran Elashi  Women’s political participation and protection of women’s rights has always been a challenge in the Developing countries. Despite the fact that Pakistan is a developing country with a developing economy yet women have actively been...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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Women and politics: the case of post-revolutionary Tunisia
by Sarah Bernolet    A Presidential election will be held in Tunisia on the 23rd of November 2014, a month after the parliamentary election. If necessary, there will be a second round of voting on the 28th of December. This will be the first regular...
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Thursday, October 09, 2014
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Women Countering Violent Extremism
We already know that Pakistani women are key to moderating extremism and combating terrorism. As civil society and government leaders, they are implementing innovative solutions in order to restore stability and bring peace to their communities and...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
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Women March for Climate Change
By Mariana Jardim Andrade Leones   Last Sunday, September 21st,2014 More than 400,000 people showed up in the streets of New York to call for action on climate change. According to the event planners it was the largest march for climate justice in...
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Monday, September 22, 2014
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Why didn't the Arab Spring translate to political rights for women in the Middle East?
By - Ashwath Komath   The Arab Spring was a complete game-changer in the Middle East and the world in general. Apart from being a political movement all over the Arab world, it was also a revolution in terms of culture and social values. What is...
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Monday, September 08, 2014
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Women need politics and politics needs women
WOMEN NEED POLITICS AND POLITICS NEEDS WOMEN by Raveesha Gupta   Growing up in the capital city and the political hot seat of the world’s youngest democracy, I wish I could talk about my experience in a liberal society, a life of equal opportunities...
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Sunday, July 06, 2014
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Why women matter for peace
"It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern wars." These are not the words of a woman who has faced the violence and ferocity of conflict, but words of Major General Patrick Cammaert, who served as the Deputy Force...
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Louise Mushikiwabo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Rwanda. (Image: Maxppp/ZUMAPRESS.com)
Thursday, April 03, 2014
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Women in Post-genocide Rwanda Have Helped Heal Their Country
The document reflects on how Rwandan women have secured big gains in the halls of power, although challenges remain.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
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Where is women’s place in local government in Turkey?
Dec. 5 was the 79th anniversary of the day Turkish women were granted the right to vote and to be elected.  The confusion in the domestic and external agenda caused this gain to be celebrated less than it deserved.  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and friends...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
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Why Dilma Cancelled On Obama, Brazil
This week we were supposed to be celebrating the first state visit to the White House by a Brazilian president in nearly two decades. Instead we are recognizing a very different first—the first time a world leader has declined to attend a state...
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