GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE
This exploratory study of constitutional jurisprudence on gender equality and women’s empowerment reveals a series of important findings regarding the current state of lived realities for women living under constitutions which purportedly provide for equality between men and women and prohibit discrimination based on gender...
International Women’s Day 2021 theme – “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”
One of the persistent democratic deficits throughout the world is women’s lack of influence in politics. In relation to political parties in particular, the voice of women in decision-making remains insufficient, and, in some cases, is non-existent.
TAKING STOCK OF PROGRESS ON GENDER EQUALITY USING THE GLOBAL STATE OF DEMOCRACY INDICES: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS SINCE THE BEIJING WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN (GSoD In Focus No. 10)
Since 1995, the world has made important strides in advancing gender equality. The increase in female representation in parliaments across the globe has been driving these advances, although there has been some progress on other indicators used to measure Gender Equality in the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices.
WPP Watch - Article 01
The main objectives of the WPP Watch platform is to raise red flags of women politicians in political distress across Africa. The WPP Watch platform is produced as articles or as podcasts every quarter. Violence is one of the main barriers keeping women out of politics.
IDEA Launches New Gender Project
International IDEA launches a new project on “enhancing the inclusion of women in political participation in Africa”.
Women Must LEAD! "We need feminist leadership in Kenya”
Ten years after the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya (2010), women are asking what is there to celebrate when several gains to women’s representation and participation in leadership continue to be eroded, ignored and replaced with self-serving interests? “How do we celebrate when the two thirds gender rule has not been fulfilled in all arms of government not even in the county assemblies where only eight counties are compliant meaning thirty-nine are not!” was the powerful reflective question posed by Hon. Martha Karua during the “Women Must Lead” Policy Dialogue held on 28th August 20202 in Nairobi, Kenya...
Africa WPP Barometer will call AU governments to account for gender parity
From 8% women in parliament in Nigeria - Africa’s most populous nation- to 61% in world leader Rwanda, Africa is home to the best and some of the worst cases of women’s political representation across the globe...
Political dialogue and leadership: women demand more visibility in the media
Despite progress made since the 1990s, a report reveals that women are lagging behind in political exercise in the media. It is within this framework that the Woman political participation (WPP) program was launched yesterday in Dakar to improve the image and leadership of women in politics...