Electoral Reform and Women’s Political Participation
With the general election approaching in 2013, and the recent adoption of the 18th amendment by Parliament, it is crucial that stakeholders turn their attention to reforming a weakened and flawed...
View ArticleDelhi scores with woman envoy in Doha
But with Arab women moving into the vanguard of popular uprisings, nursing injured male protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and heroically performing namaz in resistance before a hail of bullets from...
View ArticlePolicy Brief: Gender Sensitization for Conflict Management and Resolution
As the world marks International Women’s day, thousands of Pakistani women across the nation, suffering due to ongoing conflicts in the region remain largely ignored by the world. Domestic violence,...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia and Chicago: women on the same wavelength
The world has become a smaller place and information flows in breath-taking quantities. Yet there is a paucity of conversations between people of different nations. Relying by and large on media...
View ArticleProsperity failing to remove gender bias
Session moderator Rajni Bakshi said that in Mumbai, the lowest sex ratio was “in the most affluent areas, in Malabar Hill and Colaba…”, whereas in “tribal areas” outside the city, “the child sex ratio...
View ArticleEgyptian women continue the fight
After this year, the image of the Egyptian woman, especially when it comes to politics, will never be the same again. Since 25 January there has been an overwhelming amount of media coverage of women’s...
View ArticleSeeking real equality for Turkey’s women
Turkish women were among the first in Europe to exercise political rights with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1924, but 87 years later Turkey ranks 122nd of the 135 countries in the...
View ArticleCan Turkey Make Its Mosques Feminist?
A campaign to make Istanbul’s roughly 3,100 mosques more welcoming for women could set off a gender revolution in Turkey’s places of Islamic worship – and one that may not be uniformly welcomed. “This...
View ArticleChildless By Choice
Around the globe, more women and men are delaying childbirth, with many deciding against having children altogether. Economic recession, high unemployment rates, education and career ambitions...
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