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Representative image (Photo Credit - Reuters). Image Credit: ANI
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
China limits women representation across top echelons of political system
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Women have limited representation and voice across the top echelons of China's political system, said US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in a report. Women have limited representation and voice across the top echelons of China's...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
China frees five women activists on bail after outcry
China has unexpectedly released five women activists on bail, two lawyers said on Monday, after a vocal campaign against their detention by the West and Chinese rights campaigners. The women were taken into custody on the weekend of March 8,...
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Thursday, April 03, 2014
Call for Consultants to a UN Women and All China Women’s Federation Programme on Chinese Women’s Political Participation
Job Titles: International Consultant and National Consultant Area of Consultancy: Develop a Guide that outlines International Good Practices on how to monitor Women’s Political Participation, and that outlines how these practices can be localized to...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014
Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor rules out bid for chief executive in 2017, Hong Kong
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has made clear that she has no interest in running for the city's top job in 2017. While senior figures in both the main political camps have been talking about her suitability for the role of chief...
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
China Women's federation pledges to promote gender equality
A senior official of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) pledged on Monday to improve awareness of gender equality among the country's policy makers. Song Xiuyan, federation vice president, told a national congress that the body will work to...
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Friday, March 01, 2013
China: Bright Future for Chinese Women's Political Participation
The annual sessions of the National People's Congress (NPC) will open on March 5, 2013, and statistics show that the number of female deputies has risen to 699, accounting for 23.4 percent of all deputies, which is nearly 2.1 percent higher than the...
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
China: Provincial Level Authorities See More Women Leaders
A reshuffle of provincial-level leadership nationwide, which has seen more women leaders elected, has been concluded with Guo Jinlong elected as the Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the first...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
China: Educate Women for 'Better Society'
China has to improve women's education to make them a real force in society because empowerment of women in the country still lags behind the UN Millennium Development Goal. This in gist is what women leaders from across the Asia and Pacific region...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
China: Equality for Women Still Far Behind
"Equal rights, equal opportunities, progress for all" is the theme for the celebration of International Women's Day at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday. "To me, the conference served as a wake-up call. Although many Chinese women had...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
China: Chinese Women Lag Only in Politics
Despite remarkable progress in improving the status of women in social and economic terms, China lags the rest of Asia in empowering women politically, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) study has found.But some six decades after...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
China: Women Activists on the Forefront of Human Rights Movement
According to China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a non-profit, non- political network of grassroots activists, the contribution of women like Liu to China’s human rights movement is often overlooked in the international media. In fact, said...
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Call for Applications: Asia Pacific Feminist Forum
The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) will hold the first ever Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) on 12-14 December 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The APFF will bring together women activists, lawyers, academics, advocates and...
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