Lessons in promoting women’s participation and leadership: A practitioner b…

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The Use of Political Motherhood in Egypt’s Arab Spring Uprising and Aftermath

Political motherhood, which uses traditional motherhood to mobilize and sustain women’s political participation, is understudied in political science. Women played a significant role in Egypt�…

African Women in Political Participation and Transformational Leadership: Wor…

Women's political participation has always been a key strategy of women's movements to ensure that their interests are taken into account. However, the reality of women 's continued margin…

Struggles over Land, Livelihood, and Future Possibilities: Reframing Displace…

In this article, I use feminist political ecology to reframe displacement with the intention of revealing its multiscalar, micropolitical, and differentiated dimensions. Rebecca Elmhirst writes, …

Uganda Civil Society Statement to the High Level Political Forum

In 2015, leaders of the world signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, inequality and climate change. Together as citizens of the world, and civil society across the world,…

Women’s Civic-Political Participation Towards an Equitable and Humane Democ…

The kind of governance that Nigerians experienced since the pre-independence period has been criticized for, among other reasons, having been characterized by low-level citizen participation. Key…

Making a Difference: Embracing the Challenge of Women’s Substantive Engagem…

The campaign for women’s participation in public life has taken several years and efforts, and the outcomes are reflected in international human rights frameworks as well as national efforts th…

The African Women's Journal: African Women in Power/Politics

This issue of the African Women's Journal explores both the individual and collective experiences of the past, aspiring or current women in power/politics. The articles speak to some of the persist…

Making a Difference Beyond Numbers: Towards Women's Substantive Engagement in…

This study picks from the realization that world over the campaign for women's participation in public life has taken several years, with some of the outcomes reflected in international human right…

Obstacles for Women in Leadership Positions: The Case of South Africa

One of the findings of a 2007 survey done by the South African Commission on Gender Equality is that more than 30 percent of the respondents are of the opinion that women are too emotional to ha…