Montly Archive November 2013

The Pristina Principles is a resolution put together by the participants of Partnership for Change – Empowering Women, an international summit convened to discuss strategies and best practices to advance women’s security and justice, economic […]

This manual is based on a Training of Trainers workshop “Nominating for Change: Strengthening Women’s Position in Political Parties” delivered in Jakarta, Indonesia in March 2003. The workshop was conceived as part of NDI Indonesia […]

Most women probably already know everything they need to know to educate the media about their issue or organization. This book is primarily about helping women develop the skills they already possess. Developing these skills […]

This Global Action Plan contains recommendations from 27 of the world’s leading women in politics on encouraging women’s participation in politics, critical to gaining popular support for political parties. Publish Date: 10 December 2003 In […]

Through this handbook, The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) seeks to help women continue their advocacy activities after the Cairo, Copenhagen, and Beijing conferences and to encourage even more women to join the […]

The slowly changing face of parliamentary representation was not an inevitable consequence of the broadening of the political space in democratization processes. Rather, it has resulted from sustained mobilization, institutional engineering, political party commitment and […]

This is Chapter 10 of Has Liberalism Failed Women? Parity, Quotas and Political Representation.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai should take urgent action to fight child marriage and domestic violence or risk further harm to development and public health in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to […]

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution22/23, in which the Council extended the mandate […]

Umeddzhon Tojiev, an activist from one of Tajikistan’s major opposition parties allegedly threw himself out of the third floor window of a police station following interrogation. He had been arrested for ’insubordination to police officers’.