Participation

Women stakeholders have called for at least 30 per cent representation of women in power and decision making in the country.

Women stakeholders have called for at least 30 per cent representation of women in power and decision making in the country.

As Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein travels around Burma trying to garner support for the Democratic Party (DP), she is met with admiration and respect. The 62-year-old admits that she owes much of this adulation to her father and former deputy prime minister, the late Kyaw Nyein.

A profound distrust in political parties is hampering female participation in Yemen's struggling democracy, a study released on Tuesday suggests.

It was a single word scrawled on a wall at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that unlocked something deep inside Inbar Michelzon, two years after she had completed compulsory military service in the Israeli Defence Force.

In the next few weeks, the highest-level United Nations official ever to promote the rights and status of women worldwide will be appointed. Peace advocates demand that the new office take on the issue of violence against women in conflict zones, says Barbara Crossette.

Rwanda's FDU-Inkingi Party leader, peace and social justice activist Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, spoke to Ann Garrison for Womens' International News Gathering Service (WINGS) in July 2010, near the close of Rwanda's 2010 presidential election year, which was really an election stage play complete with election observers from the U.S. and the U.K. Incumbent Rwandan President Paul Kagame was “re-elected” on Aug.

When leading prominent Iraqi women leaders from all across the country gathered in Baghdad in June 28, 2010 they had only one question on their mind: Ela Mata? Until when? The question was directed at leading political parties engaged in negotiations over government formation after the recent elections.

Following the inaugural 'Legacy Dialogue by South African Women Leaders' on Friday, 13 August 2010, in Sandton, Johannesburg, the 13 top political, business and NGO speakers so enthused delegates that there was a call to not only continue these dialogues on a regular basis but also a call to action.

As reported last month by MediaGlobal, women activists are working in Iraq to increase women's participation in the government, economic, and legal sectors. Their work in the legal sector is particularly significant as it has the potential to strengthen laws regarding women's rights nationally, regionally, and on a global scale.