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June 28, 2011 (Republica)
A South Asian regional conference on “Promoting Gender Responsive Democratic Governance in South Asia” has started in Kathmandu from Tueday.
June 28, 2011 (Uganda Pulse)
The Women Members of Parliament are accusing Parliamentary leadership of ignoring international protocols in ensuring gender balance.
June 26, 2011 (The East African)
There are many things for which Uganda has come to be known over the past quarter of a century. It was, for starters, the first country in post-colonial Africa where a sitting government collapsed due to pressure from a homegrown insurgency.
June 24, 2011 (The New Times)
A report released by the Gender Monitoring Office, shows that women massively participated in the just concluded local elections.
June 23, 2011 (The Himalayan Times)
Former Prime Minister and senior leader of CPN-UML Madhav Kumar Nepal has stressed that the new constitution should guarantee proportional participation of women in every apparatus of the State.
June 23, 2011 (SOS Children's Villages)
Women in south Sudan are pushing for an equal say in the nation's politics on the eve of the region's independence.
June 21, 2011 (The Daily Star)
What do Asma Mahfouz, Munira Fakhro and Tawakul Karman all have in common? They are all strong, capable women defying the popular Western image of the oppressed, repressed, suppressed Muslim woman hidden behind a black chador or blue burqa, helplessly waiting for Western liberation.
June 21, 2011 (The Ghanaian Times)
A regional workshop has been opened in Accra with a call on women to take up leadership challenges to break barriers for young women in Africa.
June 20, 2011 (The Daily Progress)
A program hosted by the University of Virginia is teaching Afghan women about the nuts and bolts of American democracy, in the hopes that they'll bolster democracy in their home country.
June 20, 2011 (The Daily Star Lebanon)
The European Union's ambassador to Lebanon Friday joined the rising chorus of voices denouncing the lack of female representation in the new Cabinet.