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How Women in Ukraine are Advocating for More Inclusion in Journalism
Ukrainian women journalists convene with peers in Prague.
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IFES Holds Its First Voter Education Film Festival
IFES held a Voter Education Film Festival to share best practices, gather examples from around the world and create a video repository for IFES teams to use and refer back to.
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Alumna of Political Leadership School Wins Seat in Ukraine’s Local Elections
Leonida Ponomaryova is a scholar and civic activist with a visual disability and a newly elected member of the Kyiv Oblast Council.
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How to Protect Gender Equality in Elections During COVID-19
Disasters often inflame and exacerbate existing inequalities, and women continue to be largely left out of decision-making processes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Electoral stakeholders should work to ensure that gender does not serve as a barrier to electoral and political rights during this crisis.
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Advancing Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Sahel
IFES partnered with the Research Network on Peace Operations to support women working on women, peace and security issues from across the Sahel region and Côte d’Ivoire during a training held from March 7-10 in Burkina Faso.
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Women’s Rights Advocate
IFES invited Kodjo to Washington during the 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit to take part in related events and had the opportunity to ask her about her work and the state of women’s rights in Côte d’Ivoire.
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Ukraine Gender Assessment 2014
Despite the fact that Ukraine enacted progressive laws related to women compared to other post-Soviet countries, including on trafficking and domestic violence, its percentage of women in parliament has remained below 10 percent since independence, more than two decades ago.
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Marie-Paule Kodjo’s Fight for Women’s Rights in Côte d’Ivoire
So much of the conversation in Washington and in the media on Africa tends to focus on the violent and tragic events transpiring on the continent. And while there is much work to be done by African States, their citizens and the international community to advance human rights and democracy, the work that is being done by inspiring figures all over Africa is often overlooked. Marie-Paule Kodjo, a dogged women’s rights advocate from Côte d’Ivoire, is one such figure. Her story and life’s work evidence many of the challenges women face throughout Africa, yet offers a hopeful prospect for the advancement of their rights.
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IFES Supports Women’s Network in Cote d’Ivoire
The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is honored to join the Women’s Network in Cote d’Ivoire at the official presentation of recommendations to Ivoirian institutions and government on new opportunities for women’s leadership in political processes. A priority among those recommendations is support for the Ivoirian Parliament to enact a gender quota to increase the participation of women in government.
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CEDAW Anniversary: Encouraging Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Cote d’Ivoire
Women in Côte d’Ivoire represent a strong, productive force in the economy. However, gender equality, as proclaimed in Ivorian law, is still not always applied in practice. Samira Keita, IFES program officer in Côte d’Ivoire, talks about efforts to empower women's participation in the country.