Nepal – April 10 Assembly Elections – Gender Quotas – Women’s Political Education & Participation
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: July 22, 2005
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NEPAL:
Inside Nepal’s sealed borders women are running for historic April 10
Constituent Assembly elections. As they take advantage of ambitious gender
quotas they are learning how to vote and doing what they can to weather
campaign violence.
Nepal’s |
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Inside Nepal’s sealed borders women are running for historic April 10 |
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KATMANDU, Tomorrow the country holds elections to form its first Constituent In addition to governing this tiny Himalayan kingdom, those elected on For women the day is particularly a landmark. Last year, under the influence of a dominant Maoist faction, the interim
Of these, 50 percent have to be filed in the closed lists, which are Those are high numbers for a society where educational gaps offer a “I had to wait so many years and travel to India to complete my Waiting for
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