The Women and Foreign Policy program’s most recent update of the “Women’s Power Index” ranks 193 United Nations (UN) member states on their progress toward gender parity in political ...

Women’s support for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. elections, and their participation in the riots of the 1990s in India illustrate how women’s political engagement is far more complex and ...

Taken together, this wide-ranging crackdown has led to a pervasive chilling effect on human rights and civil society and further eroded the right to political participation. We consider that the EU’s ...

Sonia Palmieri, Head of the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. Photo: UN Women/Nejm Halla. Experts underscored the importance of shifting social norms as a critical ...