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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Africa's young female ministers: Mali follows Botswana, Zimbabwe
Africa News
Mali’s president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Monday named Kamissa Camara as his new foreign minister, joining a 33 member cabinet tasked with restoring peace and rebuilding the economy in Keita’s second and final term. 35-year Camara previously...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Interviews
Ali Guyo
Ali Guyo is a Member of the National Assembly in Kenya. This interview was conducted in November 2017 in Ottawa, Canada, during the Inter-parliamentary Union's Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Arizona will send a woman to the senate for the first time ever
Broadly
Arizona’s Senate race turned into an all-women contest Tuesday night after voters tapped Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally to represent their respective parties in November’s general election. Both women are vying for the seat...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Academic rues marginalized position of women in political sphere
Times of India
Mysuru: Pointing out that representation of women in India was worse than that of Pakistana and Nepal, retired professor of political science at the University of Mysore (UoM) Prof. M Umapathi on Sunday said that only 9% of the elected legislators...
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Thursday, August 16, 2018
Report / White Paper
Agate Report: The political participation of Armenian women with disabilities: barriers and recommendations
IFES
The Agate Rights Defense Center for Women with Disabilities, with the support of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the United States Agency for International Development, has published new research on the barriers to and...
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Friday, July 27, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Armenia needs more women in politics, but what will it take?
Armenian Weekly
“A woman’s place is in the revolution” read signs carried by countless young protesters who helped oust Armenia’s autocratic President Serge Sarkisian. (For many of Armenia’s female political activists, the ruling Republican regime embodied the ...
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Friday, July 20, 2018
Armenian women helped oust an autocrat. But they’re still being left out of politics
Pri
This past spring, as Armenia erupted in protests that would eventually oust the country’s longtime leader, women took to the streets in droves. Within days, their ranks swelled to numbers unheard of in the small, and still largely patriarchal,...
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Friday, July 06, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
African women more active in politics in some countries than others
Herald Zimbabwe
By Erin Accampo Hern  Women are less likely than men to participate in politics in Africa. This gender gap affects everything from attending community meetings to contacting elected officials, joining others to raise public issues, expressing a...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Anti-harassment panel will look for ways to promote more women in politics, Mendoza says
Chicago Tribune
Democratic state Comptroller Susana Mendoza says the party’s panel on sexual harassment issues will go beyond that subject to look at ways to recruit more women to run for public office. Mendoza serves on the panel dealing with “anti-harassment and...
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Friday, May 04, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
After a century of women’s votes what about political seats?
Irish Times
This year marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 which gave the vote to all British and Irish men over 21 and women over 30 who met minimum property or education qualifications. Gender was no longer an absolute barrier to...
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Monday, February 26, 2018
As midterms near, more women plunging into campaigns across the United States
The Chicago Tribune
Nearly a year after her hopes for the first female president were dashed, Beth Vercolio-Osmund contemplated her own political debut. Last fall, increasingly frustrated with lawmakers and the direction of politics in Washington, the 49-year-old...
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Monday, January 29, 2018
Africa's first elected woman president has transformed Liberia
Newsweek
On Monday, Liberia inaugurated a new president and the nation’s first female vice president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ended her presidency the way she began it—shattering precedent. The first woman to be elected president of an African nation has...
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Friday, August 18, 2017
As democracies weaken globally, women fail to win top political posts
By Torild Skard OSLO — The last year has brought troubling events for feminists who are striving to see more women win top political leadership positions. Two female presidents, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Park Guen-hye of South Korea, had to leave...
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Thursday, August 17, 2017
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
As democracies weaken globally, women fail to win top political posts
By Torild Skard OSLO — The last year has brought troubling events for feminists who are striving to see more women win top political leadership positions. Two female presidents, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Park Guen-hye of South Korea, had to leave...
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Monday, June 12, 2017
Armenian women take the political stage
By Karen Cirillo and Jodi Hilton In the small village of Getik, Arpine Gyulumyan runs a bed and breakfast with her family. But she is also an engineer, a social worker, and a community council member. While few residents venture far from their...
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Monday, June 12, 2017
African politics is a man's world – but we women are still blazing a trail, by Evelyn Anite
By Evelyn Anite, Uganda's minister of finance for infrastructure and privatization. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf stands down later this year as president of Liberia, it will mean that for the first time in more than a decade, no African country will...
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
African politics is a man's world – but we women are still blazing a trail, by Evelyn Anite
By Evelyn Anite, Uganda's minister of finance for infrastructure and privatization. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf stands down later this year as president of Liberia, it will mean that for the first time in more than a decade, no African country will...
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Monday, May 08, 2017
At least four women in Niue Parliament
Provisional election results in Niue indicate a boost to women's representation in Niue's parliament. At least four women have won a place in the 20 seat legislature after the country went to the polls on Saturday. O'love Jacobsen was one of two...
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