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  • Women Economic Experts Speak About the Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Jordan

    NDI Jordan recently held the first event of its new speaker series under the Women Helping Women (WHW) project last week, focusing on “The Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Jordan.” Three women economic experts and practitioners spoke at the event, and participants included around 25 members of political parties and civic groups. Participants commended NDI and WHW for highlighting women who excel in their respective fields, including economics, and recognized the program’s work in changing attitudes about women in Jordanian society.

  • Women in African Public Life

    Two days before January's swearing-in of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Africa’s first female head of state – more than 250 women met in Monrovia to discuss the role of women in African politics, business and economics.

  • Women Uniting in Afghanistan Parliament

    Despite their electoral success, the 68 women who sit in Afghanistan’s lower house of the National Assembly, or Wolesi Jirga, face restrictive social pressures and occasional violent intimidation along their path to equality.

  • Ugandan Group Working for Women's Rights Under Law

    An African activist group known as Law and Advocacy for Women in Uganda (LAW-U) has made significant progress in a fight for women’s rights issues. LAW-Uganda has made headlines fighting against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, polygamy, and human trafficking. The group has also fought for women’s land rights, female education, economic empowerment, and equal treatment under the law.

  • NDI Honors Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf and 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone

    NDI celebrated pioneering African women at its 2007 Democracy Luncheon by bestowing its two highest honors on Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to head an African country, and the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone, which is dedicated to promoting greater participation of women in that nation’s politics. President Johnson Sirleaf received the 17th W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award. The 3rd annual Madeleine K. Albright Grant was awarded to the 50/50 Group.

  • NDI Celebrates Second Anniversary of the Women Helping Women Network in Jordan

    The year 2007 marked significant achievements for women in Jordanian politics, with seven women elected to the Lower House of Parliament and a record number of women elected to municipal councils across the country.

  • Albanian Prime Minister Berisha Pledges Support for More Women in Elective Positions

    At an NDI workshop for politically active women in Tirana, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha pledged to support a proposed gender quota law that would result in significant increases to the number of women holding elective office. In Albania, a country with one of the lowest levels of women’s political participation in Europe, the law would more than quadruple the number of women members of parliament, from the current 10 to a required 42.

  • Middle East and North Africa: Training Future Political Leaders at the Young Women Leaders Academy

    Despite daunting cultural and institutional obstacles, women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continue to make strides in politics. Initiatives that help empower the next generation of women leaders are a cornerstone of NDI’s programs in the region.

  • International Leaders Forum: Women Leaders Discuss Serving in the Executive Branch

    While women have made significant gains increasing their participation in legislatures, political parties and civil society across the world, women are still severely underrepresented in the executive branch. In an effort to explore this problem, NDI, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), held a meeting of current and former women executive office-holders to discuss the unique challenges faced by women in such positions and to explore the kind of assistance needed to support them.

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu Addresses (Video) the 2008 Democracy Awards Focusing on Struggle for Democracy in Burma

    Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Women’s League of Burma were honored by NDI on Dec. 15. Archbishop Tutu received the 18th W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award for his work since the democratic transition in South Africa, which includes his advocacy for democracy in many troubled nations, including Burma. The Women’s League received the 4th annual Madeleine K. Albright Grant, named for NDI’s chairman, for its work promoting human rights and more participation by women in Burma’s democracy movement.

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