Participation

The Women's Movement spearheaded by the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) recently launched the Uganda Women's Agenda to inform government, political parties, and other stakeholders about the critical issues to be addressed if meaningful development and empowerment of women is to be realised within the next five years.

Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) yesterday picked three women to contest for the position of the Speaker of the National Assembly dropping names of Samuel Sitta and Andrew Chenge who were seen as top contenders.

The Royal Government of Cambodia encourages for having more women participations in national and sub-national institutions, aiming to promote social gender equity.

A THREE-DAY workshop on the 2010 National Diagnostic Study and Think Tank on Women in Shared Decision Making will officially open tomorrow in Honiara.

The workshop will focus on the efforts of women leading up to the 2010 general elections and to analyse the barriers to women's representation in national and provincial governance.

Think Tank will also be linking these issues to the electoral and political governance reforms.

A convention was held at the Istanbul Congress Center on Friday to evaluate the degree to which the internationally recognized Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW, has improved over the last 30 years.

Helen Samu Hakena exudes a serenity that belies her extraordinary energy and inner strength that she has devoted to the cause of justice, peace building and advocating for women's and human rights and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.

A jeep screeches to a halt in front of the house, and with a slamming of doors, three Kurdish fighters emerge, two of them women. They stride into the villagers' house, and even though it is late and the family wants to sleep, their hosts bring out some fruit and tea.

In politics, as they say, there are no permanent foes or friends but only interests. With the youth now having the largest bloc vote ahead of the 2011 general elections, parties are pulling all stops to court young voters at the expense of their erstwhile darlings - the women, writes Benon H. Oluka:-

Ministers and parliamentarians from 19 countries in Asia-Pacific have agreed on 'Whole-of-Government Approaches' for the promotion and advancement of actions and legislation on the elimination of violence against women.

A visiting team of 26 lawmakers from the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly, have expressed satisfaction with the country's gender promotion programmes which are reflected at the grassroots level.