International Women's Day Issue OVERVIEW At the beginning of 2024 — the ‘super election year — only 27 countries were led by women, showing a modest increase from 18 countries a decade ago.1 Despite this progress, women's representation in political leadership remained critically low. Of the 31 direct presidential elections held globally
https://www.youtube.com/live/xPNDlXy7Vzc?feature=shared In celebration of International Women's Day, the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) will discuss in Episode 04 of The Election Observer podcast, the issues and challenges that women face in engaging and participating in democratic processes like elections and identify possible solutions to improve representation and inclusion in governance and
https://www.youtube.com/live/xPNDlXy7Vzc?feature=shared Women have taken up spaces in various fields including in civil society organizations. They have occupied leadership and key positions which positively shape programs and activities that improve representation and promote inclusion of women and other vulnerable sectors. For those working in the fields of democracy building and human rights, the
March 8 is International Women's Day. It is commemorated to celebrate the gains in advancing women's rights as well as shed light on the issues and challenges they encounter including participation and engaging in politics and governance. The Inter-Parliamentary Union, in their "Women in Parliament in 2022" report, found that while women's
Parliament Leaves Around One-fifth Agenda Initiated by Female MPs Unaddressed ISLAMABAD, March 8, 2022: Undeterred by under-representation and neglect, female parliamentarians upheld their tradition of proactively and assertively performing their legislative, representative and oversight functions in both Houses of the Parliament during 2021-22. This has been observed in Annual Women Parliamentarians Performance
International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8 every year around the world. The IWD 2022 campaign theme is "Break The Bias". Women have taken charge to advance the exercise of their civil and political rights in different aspects of everyday living but obstacles remain, limiting the progress of women to have
Every year, on March 8, the world celebrates the International Women’s Day, shedding light on the plight of women in pursuit of gender equality. Among them, representation and participation in governance and politics. Indeed, women have come a long way with the increase in the number of women elected in parliament as
Statement to commemorate International Women's Day Dhaka: March 06, 2020 Odhikar is observing International Women’s Day on 8th March 2020, with deep concern, as women in Bangladesh are subjected to unchecked, widespread gender-based violence. Domestic abuse against women are a routine phenomenon and forms of discrimination against them are prevalent in every