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Tuesday, November 06, 2018
Women MPs of the world conference: Strengthening visibility, driving change
To mark the 100th anniversary of the first women in this country winning the right to stand for election to parliament, the House of Commons will host the first ever Women MPs of the World Conference on Thursday 8th November. MPs have agreed it will...
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Friday, October 26, 2018
Women in Palestine face violence and political exclusion, campaigner tells UN
The Guardian
Women are being shut out of Palestinian politics and excluded from peace talks, according to Randa Siniora, the first female Palestinian campaigner to address the UN security council. Speaking at the UN on Thursday, she said that while women in the...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women candidates rewrite the political playbook
Gender Watch 2018
The impact of record numbers of women candidates has already been felt this election cycle. The #MeToo movement and anger about the outcome of the 2016 presidential contest has driven women to break free from some of the conventions that have...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Women candidates poised to make history in 2018 midterm elections
CBS News
The 1992 election is often referred to as "The Year of the Woman," as more women were elected to Congress than any year before. This year is set to be another record-breaking year by the same measure, and several women are poised to make history due...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
We too: At gathering of nations, women’s voices ring loud
AP News
By Angela Charlton, In a pivotal week for women in the United States, the U.N. put forth its own clarion set of female voices at its annual meeting of nations. And women’s empowerment was only one of their rallying cries. At the U.N. General...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Women in Mexico face increasing violence—will a wave of women in government change that?
Newsweek
By Oscar López, Ever since she was a young girl growing up in the rough suburbs of Mexico City, Citlalli Hernández had big political dreams. “I always thought that something was wrong with the country, that I had to do something to transform it,”...
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Women politicians in Bolivia face increasing harassment and violence
CGTN
Bolivia is one of only two democracies in the world – the other is Rwanda – where there are more women in congress than men. But as women gain more political power, they’re also becoming the target of violent attacks from those opposed to change....
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women and political empowerment in Nigeria
The Guardian
By Davidson Aminu, Women and political empowerment in Nigeria is a topical issue and it has generated mixed reaction from both the educated and the general public. There are those who argue that women should be confined to their traditional role of...
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Thursday, September 20, 2018
Women still a rare part of world's parliaments
US News
AS MEXICO’S NATIONAL congress assembled this past weekend, women occupied 47.8 percent of the seats in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, and 49.2 percent of the seats in the Senate. The July elections that voted in the Congress also saw...
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Monday, September 17, 2018
Women claim their place in Somalia’s politics
ISS Africa
Despite some gains, female politicians face an uphill battle in reaching the country’s 30% quota. Women’s participation in Somali politics has traditionally been low, and a controversial topic in the country. Somali society typically ascribes to...
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Monday, September 10, 2018
Women parliamentarians from around the world meet in Dublin
RTE
Over 90 women parliamentarians from around the world, as well as members of Irish civil society groups, women in sport and in business have gathered at Dublin Castle for the first International Congress of Women's Caucuses. Almost 50 countries are...
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Friday, September 07, 2018
Wind of change in Djibouti
IPU
Djibouti’s new legislature is making great efforts to become more representative of the country’s people. Elections in February changed the composition of the National Assembly with an intake of 60 per cent of new MPs. Women are better represented,...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2018
Will women decide the Brazilian election? The potential impact of female voters and candidates
Polls suggest that women may play a decisive role in determining who wins the presidential race in Brazil this October. As many as two-thirds of women are currently undecided, and 60 percent reject one of the current front-runners, Congressman Jair...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Women participation and sustainable energy- Second World Parliamentary Forum on Sustainable Development
The Second World Parliamentary Forum on Sustainable Development  will take place on 12-13 September 2018 in Bali. The theme of the meeting entitled “Partnership towards Sustainable Energies for All.” This forum will be a joint effort of the...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Report / White Paper
Women and corruption: What positions must they hold to make a difference?
Science Direct
This paper in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization - Volume 151 examines in what roles women have an impact on corruption by focusing on female labor force participation and their presence in the parliament. Since much of the...
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Will toxic politics stem the surge in women candidates?
Real Clear Politics
When Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, it sparked a surge of female candidates. According to Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics, nearly 500 women initially filed to run for the U.S. House of Representatives, 54 filed...
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Friday, August 17, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
When the resistance meets the polls: A historic week for women politicians
The New York Times
By Maya Salam, Yes, that’s the sound of glass shattering ahead of the midterm elections. And female candidates are stomping through the wreckage. It’s been an election year already dominated by a surge of women, and a record number of L.G.B.T....
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Friday, August 17, 2018
Where are all the women in Nigerian politics?
Equal Times
Daring to join the male-dominated world of Nigerian politics was a tough decision for Ladi Mamman Watila, particularly in the conservative north-eastern state of Borno. But in 2003, Watila ran for a seat in the House of Representatives (the lower...
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