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Governance and Elections


Governance and Elections is a sub-theme of Reconstruction & Peacebuilding, and provides information to post-conflict governance and elections and the intersection of these issues with the women, peace and security agenda.

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  • May 21, 2012 (Washington Post)
    EGYPT: Egyptian Women Feel Excluded, Despite the Promise of the Revolution After Egyptian women stood shoulder to shoulder with men in the protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak, many looked forward to a role in the revolution's next steps. But 15 months later, as Egyptians prepare to vote for a new president this week, rights activists complain that women are being excluded from key decisions.
  • May 18, 2012 (Washington Post)
    AFGHANISTAN: Opinion: Don't Abandon Afghan Women As the United States convenes the NATO summit in Chicago this weekend, the fate of Afghanistan's women is on my mind. This spring marks the 10th anniversary of the return of Afghanistan's girls to the classroom. During the Taliban era, women were denied education. Women could not work, even when they were the sole providers for their families. Under the Taliban dictatorship, it was decreed that women should be neither seen nor heard.
  • April 16, 2012 (The Pakistan Observer)
    BURMA: Suu Kyi's Victory and Women's Empowerment MYANMAR'S Election Commission announced last week the landslide victory of the opposition National League of Democracy (NLD) party, winning 43 out of 44 parliamentary seats (97 percent) in the by-elections of April 1.After the television announced the triumph, rapturous crowds thronged the streets yelling Aung San Suu Kyi's name.The victory will not result in more power for the NLD but it was taken seriously by supporters of Suu Kyi because it finally gave her a seat representing the Irrawaddy Delta area in Kamwoo, south of Rangoon.
  • February 19, 2012 (Alarabiya)
    MIDDLE EAST: Yemen's Nobel Peace Winner Urges Participation in Polls Nobel peace laureate Tawakkul Karman said she has urged her fellow activists from Yemen's protesting “revolutionary youth” to vote for the vice president and engage in the transition period.
  • February 9, 2012 (Shabab Libya)
    LIBYA: From 0 to 40: LWPP Advocacy Effort Secures Major Representation for Women in New Libyan Assembly The Libyan Women's Platform for Peace (LWPP) welcomes the passage of a new electoral law, which guarantees women at least 40 seats on the 200-member Constituent Assembly that will draft the country's new constitution.

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