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Women's Political Participation – Making Gender Equality in Politics a Reality

New York, 19 September 2011

Women's Political Participation – Making Gender Equality in Politics a Reality

At the 66th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, women political leaders made a strong call for increasing women’s political participation and decision-making across the world. Stressing that women’s participation is essential in all contexts — during peace, through conflict and post-conflict, and during political transitions — the leaders signed on to a joint statement, as a call to action, with concrete recommendations on ways to advance women’s political participation.  The participants of the discussion included:

• H.E. Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
• The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
• H.E. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State of the United States of America
• Rt. Hon. Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission
• H.E. Roza Otunbayeva, President of the Kyrgyz Republic
• Lilia Labidi, Minister of Women’s Affairs, Republic of Tunisia
• Helen Clark, Under-Secretary-General and Administrator, UN Development Programme
• Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (read her speech)

World’s most powerful women call for stronger political role for females

The webcast archive of the event is available and is definitely worth a watch!!!