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Retheorizing Gender & Political Leadership from Asia and the Pacific (copyright: Google image)
Monday, November 29, 2021
Retheorizing gender & political leadership from Asia and the Pacific
This two-day workshop organised by the Australian National University aims to advance the field of gender and politics internationally and distill key lessons that can help address the underrepresentation of Australians from diverse cultural and...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Resident Director for Women's Political Participation Programs: Afghanistan
 The National Democratic Institute (NDI) is seeking to hire a Resident Director for Women’s Political Participation to assist with its electoral support and political development programs in Afghanistan.  The Director will be based in Kabul,...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Multimedia
Recording of webinar on young women in parliament
In light of the first IPU Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians which brought together young members of parliaments, youth leaders from other walks of life and experts from across the world in a bid to “take democracy to task” 10-11 October...
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Ray of hope for women in Indian politics
Monday, October 20, 2014
Ray of hope for women in Indian politics
By Aarushi Koundal, India being the largest democracy of the world went through one of its most talked about elections few months back. The country saw the downfall of the incumbents from the political arena. Proving all the political priests wrong...
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Ray of hope for women in Indian politics
By Aarushi Koundal, India being the largest democracy of the world went through one of its most talked about elections few months back. The country saw the downfall of the incumbents from the political arena. Proving all the political priests wrong...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
International Agreement and Action Plans
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women
Beijing +20 is the process to assess the implementation by governments and other stakeholders of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995. These Beijing outcome document...
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Reforms stressed to strengthen women political leadership, Pakistan
Women political participation in Pakistan is constrained due to deep-rooted gender inequality and politics of patronage. There is need to not only sensitize political leadership but also introduce broader legislative and electoral reforms to...
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Friday, February 07, 2014
Report / White Paper
Report from SIGAR: Challenges to Securing Afghan Women’s Gains in a Post-2014 Environment
The situation for women during the Taliban regime contrasted sharply with that observed in earlier periods, particularly the era of the Soviet occupation (1979-89). During the Soviet occupation, Afghan Communist party leaders ran the country and...
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Report / White Paper
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo
The present report contains the findings of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, following her visit to Papua New Guinea. The Special Rapporteur examines the situation of violence against women in the...
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Report / White Paper
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
The present report is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 15/23. This first thematic report of the Working Group records current achievements in women‟s political representation and articulates the further challenges to ...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Regional Conference on Women's Political Participation: Charting a Path for Political Equality in Asia
Charting a Path for Political Equality in Asia is organized by UNDP (Country Office Mongolia and supported by the Asia-Pacific Regional Center and the Regional Bureau of the Asia Pacific) in collaboration with the National Committee on Gender...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Report / White Paper
Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Gendered Impacts in Asia
  Amidst growing uncertainties in a globalised world, fundamentalist convictions have been gaining ground in many religions. Reinforced by the threat from international terrorism, this renaissance of religious fundamentalisms has created...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Regional Seminar for Asian Parliaments : Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls: From legislation to effective enforcement
As part of its campaign Parliaments Take Action on Violence against Women, the IPU is organizing, with the Parliament of India, a seminar for Asian Parliaments on preventing and responding to violence against women and girls. This seminar aims to...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Report / White Paper
Report on Constituency Dialogues in Cambodia 2010
NDI‟s January to September 2010 constituency dialogues revealed significant consistencies in the concerns facing Cambodians across the program‟s 12 provinces: land conflicts; agricultural challenges, particularly irrigation needs and access to...
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Mujeres Sarpanchas-Foto Anupama Saxena
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Case Study
Rural e-governance in India: For whom?
In India’s rural e-governance initiative, 33% of local government seats are reserved for women. Rural village heads of Chhattisgarh State – one of India's poorest-- can now participate in the public process and in theory remotely communicate the...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Report / White Paper
Report of the Secretary General: World Survey on the Role of Women in Development
The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development focuses on emerging development issues that have an impact on the role of women in the economy, and is presented to the Second Committee of the General Assembly at five-year intervals.The present...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Report / White Paper
Report of the Fifth South Asia Regional Ministerial Conference Celebrating Beijing Plus Ten
This report is an account of the Fifth South Asia Regional Ministerial Meeting, "Celebrating Beijing Plus Ten.” It provides an overview of the presentations, discussions and recommendations given at the meeting; contains the consensus document "...
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