Participation

Today, April 30, should be a red-letter day for Filipino women because it is the 74th anniversary of the plebiscite that gave them the right to vote, according to election lawyer Romulo Macalintal.

“It is one of the most memorable and historic events for women, for 74 years ago marked the very first time that Filipino women exercised their right of suffrage,” Macalintal said in a statement.

"We women demand!…" sang out a hundred plus voices "…Justice for Marie!" Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by government agents when they slammed a wooden door into her stomach during an early morning invasion of an earthquake displacement camp in Port au Prince. The government is using force to try to force thousands to leave camps without providing any place for people to go.

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.

The acting Director of Baobab-Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), a non-governmental organisation, Ms. Chibogu Obinwa, made the call at the opening ceremony of the workshop for 25 participants from Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe on Tuesday.

Rwanda National Police (RNP) will begin conducting special training for female police officers to promote women participation in security and peace-building, both at the national and international levels.

The Inspector General of Police, Emmanuel Gasana, announced this yesterday during the first ever RNP Female Officers' Convention held at Petit Stade in Kigali.

Traffic stalled and offices stood still for five minutes Tuesday as women's rights activists protested against the exclusion of female ministers in the new Cabinet.

Positioning themselves as roadblocks in Downtown, Hamra and Sassine Square, the groups of several dozen demonstrators, part of the Lebanese Women's Movement, held banners saying “A Cabinet without women is going backward.”

The Women Members of Parliament are accusing Parliamentary leadership of ignoring international protocols in ensuring gender balance.

The women say they should be given at least 30% of all leadership positions, which is not the current case.

The matter was raised by MP Cecilia Ogwal, supported by Beti Amongi and the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, after the NRM had assigned its members to the various committees.

North Cauca, Colombia, June 24, 2011: The first meeting of indigenous women in resistance for the survival and autonomy of their peoples concluded on Friday, after taking place at a shelter in Huellas Caloto in the Bodega Alta district in the Cauca department of Colombia.

The central African area's founding leader John Garang said the area's women were ‘the poorest of the poor and the most marginalised of the marginalised.'

But as South Sudan gets ready to become an official independent nation, on July 9, things are changing for women.

Since 2005, when North and South Sudan signed a peace deal that put a stop to decades of civil war, the tide has been turning.

A South Asian regional conference on “Promoting Gender Responsive Democratic Governance in South Asia” has started in Kathmandu from Tueday.

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.