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    Gender mainstreaming in Latin American parliaments a work in progress

    International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2011
    The past decade has seen a significant rise in the number of women participating in national parliaments in the region, although results vary by country. The enactment of women’s or gender quota laws in 12 Latin American countries has played a key role in this increase.
  • Organisation

    Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation

    AF is a civil society organisation working for women’s empowerment and citizens’ rights with the collaboration of citizens’ groups and organisations to provide information, build cap
  • Document

    Women's empowerment in India: an analytical overview

    Asia Foundation, 2010
    Women’s empowerment in India is heavily dependent on many different variables that include geographical location (urban/rural), educational status, social status (caste and class), and age.
  • Document

    Diversity and female political participation: views on and from the Arab world

    Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2010
    Equality, respect for human rights, and protection of citizens’ rights by the government are mutually enhancing features of good governance. They are meant to refer to men and women alike, implying that the denial of equal rights and equal participation based on gender discrimination is incompatible with the notion of good governance – and the notion of democracy.
  • Organisation

    Gender Governance Programme, Kenya

    The overall goal of the GGP is to transform leadership and governance at all levels in Kenya in order to deliver on poverty reduction, access to basic needs and equality between and among persons.
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    National mechanism for gender equality and the empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean region

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    Since the 1990s, despite some setbacks, Latin American and Caribbean countries, have advanced in the process of setting up national mechanisms for the advancement of women and have managed to carve out a formal space in the state apparatus as part of the democratization process that has transpired in the region in the past few years.
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    One in ten voices: the Kenya women parliamentary association (KEWOPA)

    Gender Governance Programme, Kenya, 2011
    In Kenya, where women MPs are in a significant minority compared to their male counterparts, the formation of a cross-party women’s political caucus, the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA), is one means of ensuring that the issues affecting women are integrated into legislation.
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    SADC gender protocol 2011 barometer

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2012
    The third Southern Africa Gender Protocol Barometer moves into high gear with the introduction of the SADC Gender and Development Index (SGDI) that complements the Citizen Score Card (CSC) that has been running for three years.
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    Gender in the 2011 South African local government elections

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2011
    The 2011 local government elections that witnessed a decline in women’s representation at the very moment that South Africa should be redoubling its efforts to achieve gender parity underscores the need for a legislated quota for women in national and local elections.
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    A place at the table: safeguarding women’s rights in Afghanistan

    Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2011
    Ten years on from the start of the western intervention in Afghanistan, Afghan women are facing an uncertain future.

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