Turkey poll unlikely to deliver many more women MPs
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A bid to radically lift the number of women elected to Turkey's parliament, which has one of the lowest levels of female representation in the world, looks set to fail this Sunday.
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On Sunday, voters will have a limited chance to elect members to the city&#39;s parliament. By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Turkish women are on the street protesting as never before as the fight to preserve Turkey's secular status gives them a louder political voice that could translate into parliamentary seats in this summer's elections.
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While Nancy Pelosi's rise to U.S. House Speaker is a milestone for women in national politics, women are still waiting their turn at the state level.
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Turkish MPs defy the president by reaffirming their support for constitutional reforms, amid tensions over Islam.
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Turkey &#39;s developments on penal reform have been put on hold as its parliament goes into recess. Turkish parliament went into recess on Saturday until 1 October, leaving a crucial penal code reform package
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Abdullah Gul falls short of target in second parliamentary vote but should triumph at third time of asking next week.
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The Democratic candidate slips in the polls of female voters
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ISTANBUL -- It's the head scarf, stupid. If it weren't for a three-foot-square piece of fabric, sometimes black and stark but more often fancy or lacy, rosy pink or flowery, Turkey's 42 million voters wouldn't be going to the polls Sunday.
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With her poll lead slipping away the favourite has had to change tack to win back women voters
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Turkey's pro-secular president blocked a measure Monday that would have allowed the Islamic-leaning government to hold a referendum on a new presidential voting system on the same day as general elections next month.
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Turkey will push to improve its democracy and human rights record regardless of whether European Union leaders decide in December to begin membership talks with Ankara, the government said Monday.
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ROME, Dec. 7 (IPS) - About half of the parliamentarians in Rwanda are  women; many other African countries have  more women in  parliament than some western ones. It's taken some doing, as  Gertrude  Mongella knows - and as she tells IPS in an interview.
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Turkish MPs back a blanket ban on smoking in enclosed public places - but it may prove tough to enforce.
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The European Union executive expressed concern after a new penal code in Turkey seen as crucial to the country's bid to join the EU was left in parliamentary limbo.
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Hong Kong&#39;s pro-democracy politicians failed to increased their numbers in the legislature by as much as expected in an election with a record turnout, defusing the outcry for China to allow fuller elections.
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Businesswomen make up a growing percentage of the global workforce but are still under-represented in the boardroom.  With just 117 women among the 1,130 directors of the FTSE 100 companies, according to a recent survey (January 2007) by Cranfield University, it would need almost a fourfold increase in female representation to achieve gender equality.