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Empowering Voices: Gender Dynamics and Women’s Engagement in Russia’s BRICS+ 2024 Presidency

... welcoming five new member countries: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), further shaping a multipolar world. A significant aspect of the Russian BRICS+ Presidency is its renewed emphasis on women's empowerment and gender equality as a part of the sustainable development agenda. This aligns with the Summit’s main theme, “Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security”, and its proposed priority areas: policy and security, economy and ...

22.10.2024

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As Women Make up Only 6% of Parliament, Gender Equality Is Still a Long Way off in Iran

... of a parliamentary body with only 17 female parliamentarians, that is nearly 6% of the total number of representatives – the former parliament had the same figure. The 2019 UN Women annual report ranks Iran 180 th out of 193 countries in terms of gender equality in parliament; globally, there are only 27 states in which wo¬¬¬men account for less than 10 percent of parliamentarians . According to the 2011 UN General Assembly resolution , women's political participation is one of the main factors ...

15.04.2020

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