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First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has called on the Nigerian women to seek elective posts in 2011 even as she urged the men to support those who have already made their intentions known.

She also called on the international community to enjoin the Nigerian men to change the old tradition of suppressing women and relegating them to the background and embrace modern trend as seen in South Africa, Senegal and Rwanda.

Newly elected members of parliament from Western Equatoria State Legislative Assembly in Southern Sudan took part today in a one-day gender awareness workshop in the state capital Yambio.

The 48 parliamentarians were introduced to basic gender concepts, the importance of gender responsive budgeting and the importance of monitoring government programmes for gender equality and empowerment.

"Black Diamond" and her comrades may look like any bunch of street-wise girls with attitude but they have the military hardware to back up the look.

"Mortars are my favourite weapon," says the leader of a group of Liberian women rebel fighters - the Women's Artillery Commandos (WAC).

Even her enemies on the government side acknowledge her military strength.

While the use of Afghanistan and journalism in one word usually evokes negative images such as abducted reporters and war coverage, three Afghan women have taken a step to improve the media situation in Afghanistan, by setting up a Women's Journalism Center to help build female journalists' careers.

The Women's Leader of the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Madam Rosalyn McCarthy has told the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation's Women's Programme hosted by Haja Kadi Johnson yesterday August 25th 2010 that “the APC has disappointed us”.

August 26th is Women's Equality Day in the United States. It was on this date in 1920 that passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote, was adopted and thus became the law of the land. It was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848 at the world's first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York.

The shooting of a female Afghan politician on Monday demonstrates the fragility of the modest gains made by Afghan women after the fall of the Taleban, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Nida Khyani, a female Provincial Council member, was left in critical condition after being attacked in a drive-by shooting in Pul-e-Khumri, the provincial capital of Baghlan in northern Afghanistan.

Cuban president Raúl Castro Ruz chaired the political-cultural ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC). On this occasion, Raúl commended the role played by women in the success of the Cuban Revolution.

When an all-male state Senate committee earlier this month rejected Hawaii's first female nominee for chief justice because she didn't have administrative experience or a "judicial temperament," many lawyers, male and female alike, were quick to call foul.

"Even the appearance that there is a glass ceiling in any profession in Hawaii is thoroughly repugnant," Honolulu attorney Joe Fadrowsky told the panel.

ABU DHABI - More women are needed to make up for a shortfall in diplomats, according to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Anwar Gargash.