Political empowerment

Women’s Parliament (Israel)

Table of Contents 1 Women’s Parliament:  Platform for politics from another perspective 2 The impact of the Parliament 3 See also 4 References Women’s Parliament:  Platform for politics from another perspective Israel’s Women’s Parliament is a platform for critical and feminist debates on the prevailing policies and discourse in Israel. The Women’s Parliament was founded in […]

Aid effectiveness

Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality Recent reforms of aid delivery, most notably the  Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), have provided new opportunties and mechanisms to translate donor and government commitments into improved practice, results and impacts. Achieving internationally agreed development goals will, however, not be possible without progress in gender equality and women’s empowerment. […]

Access to property

Property is defined as things commonly recognized as belonging to a person or group. Important types of property include real property (), personal property (other physical possessions such as a home, a car, etc.), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.). Owners of property have the right to dispense with the property in […]

Tarja Halonen

Tarja Halonen was born on 24 December 1943 in Helsinki, . She was the President of Finland from 2000-2012, the first woman to be elected to this office. Table of Contents 1 Education and Early Career 2 1987 – 2000 3 Presidential Campaign (2000) and Presidency (2000- ) 4 Sources Education and Early Career Halonen […]

Tansu Çiller

Tansu Penbe Çiller (born October 9, 1946) is an economist and politician in . Between 1993 and 1996, she served as Turkey’s first female Prime Minister, and was the third female head of state in a predominantly Muslim country. Table of Contents 1 Early Life and Education 2 Political Career 2.1 Europe 3 Reputation 4 […]

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (1933 – 2004) was an author, filmmaker, philosopher, literary theorist, and political activist. Table of Contents 1 Early Life and Education 2 Works 3 Political Activism 4 Prizes and Distinctions 5 Relationships 6 Sources Early Life and Education Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in […]

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906) was a prominent American civil rights advocate who played an instrumental role in the women’s rights movement in the 19th century to introduce in the . During her lifetime, Anthony gained widespread notoriety as a powerful public advocate of women’s rights and as a new and stirring voice for […]

Women’s economic leadership

Table of Contents 1 About 2 Women Economic Leadership in Agriculture 2.1 The Knowledge Hub on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture 3 See also 4 References 5 External links About Relative to their works on food and livelihood issues in the World, the International NGO Oxfam, developped the program of Women’s Economic LeadershipWomen Economic Leadership. […]

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916-2000) was a politician and Prime Minister of (formerly Ceylon). She became the world’s first elected female prime minister in 1960. She was the wife of a previous Sri Lankan prime minister, Solomon Bandaranaike, whom she replaced after his assassination, and the mother of Sri Lanka’s third prime minister, Chandrika Kumaratunga. Table of […]

Soong Ching-ling

Soong Ch’ing-ling (traditional Chinese: 宋慶齡) (27 January 1893 – 29 May 1981), also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the three Soong sisters—who, along with their husbands, were amongst most significant political figures of the early 20th century. She was the first non-royal woman to officially become head of state of China, acting […]

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