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Photo: UN Women/Pornvit Visitoran Studies show higher numbers of women in parliament generally contribute to stronger attention to women's issues. Women's political participation is a fundamental prerequisite for gender equality and genuine democracy. It facilitates women's direct engagement in public decision-making and is a means of ensuring better accountability to women. Political accountability to women begins with increasing the number of women in decision-making positions, but it cannot stop there. What is required are gender-sensitive governance reforms that will make all elected officials more effective at promoting gender equality in public policy and ensuring their implementation. One of the pillars of UN Women's work is advancing women's political participation and good governance, to ensure that decision-making processes are participatory, responsive, equitable and inclusive. Efforts are focused through strategic entry points that can advance the status of women by catalysing wide-ranging, long-term impacts. Support is provided to equip women to translate the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), now ratified by the majority of the world's governments, into legal guarantees of gender equality. Another strategy is through working with multiple stakeholders, like women's organizations, governments, the UN system and the private sector, to bring more women into government, train women leaders, and boost women's skills to actively participate in elections as candidates and voters. UN Women in ActionRural women leading in Timor-LesteIn Timor-Leste, UN Women is supporting women's political participation through a collection of programmes aimed at building the capacity of women to play effective roles as political actors and to improve the gender-responsiveness of governance structures. The Programme for Enhancing Rural Women's Leadership and Participation in Nation Building in Timor-Leste (PERWL) targets Timorese rural women, with the aim of building the capacity of women leaders and groups at the national and local levels to participate in the process of nation building. Objectives of PERWL:
Activities supporting increased participation of women in politics include:
Women participate for gender-responsive governance in AcehIn Aceh, women remain underrepresented in political and decision-making positions. Even though Aceh takes pride in its history of women leaders and heroines, prevailing cultural and social norms in Aceh regard politics as a male arena. The period of transition after a conflict provides an opportunity to create a democratic and equal society. To make the most of this critical period, UN Women supported partners to:
More women in Cambodia's communesIn Cambodia, UN Women supported women to take part in commune elections in 2002 and 2007. For the 2002 vote UN Women supported the training by NGOs of over 60 per cent of the almost 12,000 women who contested the elections. Women secured 8 per cent of the 11,352 seats available. In the April 2007 commune elections women did almost twice as well, securing almost 15 per cent of the seats. What political party system does China have?China is a one-party state ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
What is political participation quizlet?Political participation refers to the many different ways that people take part in politics and government. Voting is one of the most common and widely studied forms of political participation.
Which of the following best explains the characteristic of elections in Mexico and Nigeria?explains a characteristic of elections in Mexico and Nigeria? Mexico and Nigeria both have independent electoral commissions to reduce the impact of corrupt practices upon election results.
Which of the following best describes how the Mexican president is elected?Which of the following describes how the Mexican president is elected? The president is chosen using a plurality formula, where the candidate who wins the most votes in a single round is elected president.
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