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Lebanese President Michel Sleiman encouraged women Wednesday to play a greater role in their country’s politics and expressed hope that Arab women would be able to gain their full rights as citizens.
Kuwait’s Islamist-led opposition won the majority seats in a snap election for the wealthy Gulf state’s fourth parliament in less than six years, while women candidates did not win a single seat, according to official results released on Friday.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Villy Søvndal wants to support Arab women who played an active role in the “Arab spring”. To move the process forward, Denmark is contributing DKK 34 million. “Denmark wants to provide support and set an example of a society where women have a large measure of equal rights”, Søvndal told Kristeligt Dagblad.
Nazra for Feminist Studies (Nazra) released a report about mentoring* women candidates in the 2011-12 People’s Assembly Elections based on its observations of the electoral process and the experience of several women candidates. In connection with the report is also launced a video documentary which presents the women candidates’ experiences of the elections.
Watch segments of the video documentary:
Each political party must have equal numbers of men and women in its electoral list, according to the new election law recently adopted by Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) this Saturday, according to magharebia.com
