Gender, Women and Democracy

This guide targets governments and parliaments considering the adoption of gender-sensitive budgets. It covers the issues, methods, and strategies faced during the first year of implementation. Although the manual uses a practical approach, it also reviews applications stemming from emerging research. The data is drawn from countries with other gender-sensitive budgets in place or in the process of initiation.

Women's Rights in the New Constitution of Iraq: Perspectives from the Afghan Constitutional Experience

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.

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.