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Elected female representatives from the local government on Sunday demanded the reservation of one third of the ward of Union Parishad and Pourashava for women which would be selected from every three wards by rotation every year.

Women Constituent Assembly Members' Group and Joint Women Struggle Coordination Committee have warned of obstructing the House business until and unless the 33 percent participation of women in every apparatus of the state is guaranteed.

The Committee meeting today has decided to raise their voice both inside and outside the Parliament until the demand is addressed.

Appreciating the leadership role of Dr Fehmida Mirza, for undertaking numerous initiatives towards the protection and empowerment of women, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that she is a role model for women of many countries particularly in her region.

At a conference held in London on Thursday to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Arab International Women's Forum, politicians, academics and business leaders from the Middle East, Asia and Africa gathered to address the themes of ‘Emerging Economies and Leaderships.'

In Sierra Leone's highly patriarchal society, where institutionalised gender inequalities are exacerbated by discriminatory customs, one group is singing its way towards changing this.

Currently, more women in Kurdistan are seeking primary, secondary and higher education, creating a more educated female workforce.

"Security forces in civilian clothes have threatened me with the jambiyya, not just during demonstrations, but everywhere I go," the protest leader and journalist Tawakkol Karman told me, describing the traditional dagger that Yemeni men wear strapped to their waists.

A Sudanese genocide refugee relayed his story of escaping the massacre of his village during a speech on Wednesday, May 4, and called for students to support peace, rather than violence as a method of stopping genocide.

Women lawmakers and four other members of parliament from marginalized and dalit communities obstructed the parliamentary proceedings on Sunday demanding appropriate representation of their communities in the state organs.

Large numbers of Iranian schoolgirls staged a rally in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran on Tuesday to protest at the massacre of peaceful protestors, specially girls, in Bahrain by the Saudi and al-Khalifa forces.

In the Tuesday gathering, the students who had come from different schools in Tehran condemned the crackdown, torture and massacre of the Bahraini girls and women by the Manama government and Saudi forces.