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Nicaragua's parity law pushed women to 53.9% of National Assembly seats by 2024, the world's third-highest, but the same period saw Ortega-Murillo …
Passed unanimously by Ghana's Parliament on 30 July 2024 and assented to on 11 September 2024, Act 1121 mandates minimum 30% female …
FSM was the last Pacific nation never to elect a woman to national parliament until Dr. Perpetua Sappa Konman's 2021 by-election win. …
Venezuela's CNE has issued last-minute gender-parity rules since 2020, but compliance is weak: just 3 of 26 parties met the 2020 rules, …
Tunisia's 2014-17 electoral parity law lifted women's municipal council seats to 47% in 2018, but a 2022 law under President Kais Saied …
Since 2009, the Helene Weber Awards have recognized and trained elected female representatives in local government who have distinguished themselves through exceptional …
The “Women in politics: 2023” map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, presents new data for women in executive …
This toolkit has been designed in response to a growing desire by parliaments around the world to improve the way that they …
Gabon's 2016 quota law required 30% women on candidate lists and senior posts, but representation stagnated at 14-17% for most of 2016-2022. …
Algeria's 2012 quota law (Organic Law 12-03) lifted women's share of parliamentary seats from 7.7% to 31.6% by rejecting non-compliant lists outright. …
This research report builds on an earlier report published in May 2013 entitled, ‘The Full View: Advancing the goal of gender balance …
Kazakhstan's 2020 law requires 30% of party-list candidates be women, youth or disabled combined, not women specifically. A 2024 peer-reviewed study found …
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