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Friday, August 18, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Dawn Butler: ‘It is shocking, the disrespect for Black women in the Commons’
The Guardian
The Labour MP Dawn Butler remembers the first time she was called a liar. She was eight years old and had just returned from a family holiday to Jamaica. She was telling her class that she saw a cockroach that could fly when the teacher stopped...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Discourage money politics in Nigeria, Professor Aziza Advises
New Telegraph
Professor Rose Aziza of Deltas State University has advised that the Nigerian political system should do everything thing humanly possible to discourage money politics in order to encourage the youths to come and contribute their quota towards...
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Source: The Siasat Daily
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Doha deal excludes Afghan women from political engagement: HRW
The Siasat Daily
The Doha agreement, which was signed between the US and the Taliban, is less transparent and also excluded Afghan women from political engagement to a great extent, Heather Barr, the associate director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights...
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Source: Science Norway
Thursday, June 08, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Digital inclusion in peace processes – no silver bullet, but a major opportunity
Science Norway
Digital inclusion is paving the way for women and other marginalised groups to participate in peace processes. Through digital platforms, those who are unable to participate in physical meetings, such as women with children, youth or disabled, can...
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Bernadette Lahai
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
Interviews
Dr. Bernadette Lahai
Hon Dr Bernadette Lahai is Agriculturist by profession. In the 2002 general elections, she was elected to the Sierra Leone House of Parliament under the Sierra Leone People’s Party. She won re-election in the 2007 and in the 2012 Parliamentary...
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UNW
Friday, November 04, 2022
Data shows the need to redouble efforts to enhance women in leadership posts in South-East Asia
UN Women
Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must redouble efforts to correct the slim representation of women in leadership posts across multiple sectors of society – or they will risk holding back the region...
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Election workers count ballots during the 2012 Timor-Leste presidential elections at a polling station in the capital Dili, March 17, 2021. Credit: Sandra Magno/UNDP
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Does Timor-Leste’s upcoming election herald a more inclusive and progressive democracy?
The Diplomat
Next week’s election will feature more female candidates than ever, but their impact on the country’s patriarchal cultural norms remains to be seen. Next week, Timor-Leste will hold the seventh presidential election that the country has conducted on...
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Diversity in the Bundestag - Credits: UK in a Changing Europe
Friday, January 14, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Diversity in the Bundestag
UK in a Changing Europe
By Sophie Stowers When it comes to diversity in the Bundestag, last year’s federal elections in Germany produced the most diverse parliament in the country’s history. The 2021-2025 Bundestag contains a record number (83) of parliamentarians from...
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madanyat
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Guide / Training Material
Defying violence against women in politics
Madanyat
The massive participation of women in the protest movements during the October 17, 2019 revolution and the way they took charge of handling the Covid-19 pandemic where women’s concerns were brought to the forefront, could give the false...
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The Alaska and national flags fly at half-mast on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 in front of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (James Brooks / ADN)
Friday, June 11, 2021
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Dreaming of an Alaska where women lead our politics
Anchorage Daily News
I am an unabashed child of the 1960s. I marched. I chanted. I tried to levitate the Pentagon and shake all the bad out of it while on a particularly fun acid excursion. Women had dreams for their future that had nothing to do with the way things...
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DMK women's wing secretary Kanimozhi during an election campaign rally in support of party candidate ahead of Tamil Nadu assembly polls, in Tenkasi district on April 2. (File photo)
Friday, May 07, 2021
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Decoding women’s representation in the 2021 state elections
Hindustan Times
Reports, anecdotal accounts, and now the results suggest that women played a crucial role in shaping the electoral outcomes in the four states and one Union Territory that went to the polls this year. In West Bengal, they may have cemented the All...
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Thursday, March 04, 2021
Multimedia
Democracy IDEAs podcast: How do we get more women in politics?
International IDEA
Across the world, women face challenges to participate in politics, from confronting hate speech to internal party obstacles and lack of subsidized maternity leave. What are the best ways to increase women’s participation in elections and within...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2018
Interviews
Dr. Patricia McFadden
Dr. Patricia McFadden is a sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher from Swaziland. She has worked in the African and global women’s movements as well. 
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Interviews
Dr. Jessie Kabwila
Hon. Dr. Jessie Kabwila is a politician, academic, and feminist. Member of Parliament in Malawi, she is currently the Chairperson of the Women Parliamentary Caucus.  iKNOW Politics: In 2014, the incumbent female president Joyce Banda lost the...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017
Does Democracy Automatically Lead to Gender Equality?
According to the latest Global Gender Gap Report published in October 2016 by the World Economic Forum, Rwanda has the highest percentage of women in parliament worldwide—64% of seats in the Rwandan parliament are occupied by women. Rwanda and...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
Democracy Without Women is Impossible
Though half of the world's population, women continue to be under-represented as voters, party leaders and elected officials. Just over 20 percent of parliamentarians worldwide are women. Yet evidence is strong that as more women are elected,...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Director of leading feminist organization Nazra banned from travel
The Executive Director of Nazra For Feminist Studies center, Mozn Hassan, was banned from traveling last month. Nazra published the following statement: “The Passport Administration at Cairo International Airport banned this morning feminist...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Demands of Greater Political Participation for Women on Paraguayan Women's Day
On the occasion of the Day of the Paraguayan Women, celebrated today, 24 February, a group of female workers have called for a greater participation of women in politics in Paraguay, in order to improve their social rights. Most of these women are...
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