Sentences with phrase «of women in parliament»

Individual movable speakers are magnetically fixed across the wall at the front of the gallery, precisely arranged to visualise a set of national statistics: whether population, GDP, land mass, year of independence, or percentage of women in parliament, to name a few possible arrangements.

«Labour is still the voice of women in parliament,» she said, pointing to the 80 female MPs in the party compared with 45 in the Conservative party.

The party has the lowest percentage of women in parliament and the lowest number of MPs.

Although progress is slow, the overall number of female chairs across the committee system has gradually increased due to a cohort effect, as the percentage of women in Parliament has increased.

This is important because the role of a select committee chair is a high profile, influential one; an increase in the number of female chairs has a direct impact on the visibility of women in Parliament, and may encourage more women to play a role in the committee system and politics itself.

Since 1979, the percentage of female chairs on committees has usually been smaller than the percentage of women in Parliament.

Rwanda is ranked fifth overall (and first globally for percentage of women in parliament) ahead of the likes of Germany (13), United Kingdom (20), Canada (35) and the United States (45).

Domestic violence Having a critical mass of women in Parliament, after Labour won, to push that issue [of domestic violence] across government was really important.

All - women shortlists, or AWS in common lingo, are the sticking plaster that has been applied to the gaping wound that is the lack of women in Parliament.

The argument for fixed quotas of women in Parliament has re-emerged and been seized upon by the media and campaign groups claiming that there is serious lack of female representation in the party hierarchy.

A very disturbing aspect of Ghana's Parliamentary democracy is the abysmal low representation of women in Parliament.

After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, the increasing presence of women in the Parliament, occupying seats alongside «warlords» and other prominent male figures, has been a progressive step.

The statue of the suffragist holding a banner reading «Courage calls for courage everywhere» will be the first of a woman in Parliament Squa

Today the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square in London was unveiled.

Hers will be the first ever statue of a woman in Parliament Square, and the first ever statue there to be created by a woman artist, Gillian Wearing OBE.

Following Caroline Criado - Perez's campaign for a statue of a woman in Parliament Square, the Mayor announced Turner Prize - winning Gillian Wearing as the artist who will take the landmark project forward, making it the first statue created by a woman to be erected in the square.

Not exact matches

Reacting to the result on Wednesday, Archbishop of Sydney Dr Glenn Davies said in a video posted online: «Although this won't prevent me from continuing to teach that marriage, in God's good design, is between a men and a woman... the reality will be, in a very short period of time, our Parliament will legislate for same - sex marriage.»

«Our alumni are in leadership positions on all continents: starting schools and even universities (for example Wyoming Catholic College), running pro-life programmes and post-abortion healing programmes (in the US, throughout Europe, and even in China), entering in politics (an Austrian graduate from our MMF program, Gudrun Kugler, is now a member of the Austrian Federal Parliament and she is in charge of women's, family and human rights issues).

But our parliament is 24 % women, and there are plenty of women in larger cities who are professionals, although in the rural areas, there is more of a traditionalist approach.

Men have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... One could fill many pages with the reasons why men have done this, and not tell a hundredth part of them.

A Member of Parliament — or a magistrate, or the Head Teacher of a school, or a borough councillor - who dared to say «Children should be taught that marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman, bringing new children into the world» would in all probability be denounced with vigour and forced to resign.

A couple of examples are; that it is the church that established universities, it is the church that established hospitals, it was church people who worked to abolish slavery in the west, church people lobbied the British Parliament for an age of consent, the emancipation of women comes from Christian teaching.

I was privileged to be invited to Westminster Hall, where, in an extraordinary moment of British history, the Pope was to address Members of Parliament and a great gathering of men and women in public life from across Britain.

Much of that small but heroic generation of women who entered their national parliaments or were sent as delegates to the League of Nations in the 1920s and «30s were members of the Women's International Lewomen who entered their national parliaments or were sent as delegates to the League of Nations in the 1920s and «30s were members of the Women's International LeWomen's International League.

As women gained equal rights and were able to enter parliaments and decision - making bodies in equal numbers with men, their influence would be able to sway societies away from war and toward nonviolent political means of solving disputes.

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

At the centenary celebrations of the Parliament of Religions in Chicago (1993) a statement on «Global Ethic» was signed by the leaders of world religions which highlighted their commitment to a culture of solidarity and a just economic order; a culture of non-violence and respect for life; a culture of equal rights and partnership between men and women; and a culture of tolerance and truthfulness.

In 1539 under authority of Henry Parliament passed a statement endorsing transubstantiation, the celibacy of the clergy, private masses, the observance of the vows of chastity taken by men and women, and auricular concession, and declaring that Communion in both kinds was not necessarIn 1539 under authority of Henry Parliament passed a statement endorsing transubstantiation, the celibacy of the clergy, private masses, the observance of the vows of chastity taken by men and women, and auricular concession, and declaring that Communion in both kinds was not necessarin both kinds was not necessary.

A blocking amendment to this effect should be put down in both Houses whenever a Draft Bishops (Ordination of Women) Measure comes before Parliament, and should be supported by all Christian parliamentarians, whatever their views on the ordination of women peWomen) Measure comes before Parliament, and should be supported by all Christian parliamentarians, whatever their views on the ordination of women pewomen per se.

[33] In Scotland, a bill safeguarding the freedom of women to breastfeed in public was passed in 2005 by the Scottish ParliamenIn Scotland, a bill safeguarding the freedom of women to breastfeed in public was passed in 2005 by the Scottish Parliamenin public was passed in 2005 by the Scottish Parliamenin 2005 by the Scottish Parliament.

After joining Parliament in 1982, a Parliament of 97 % men, Harriet set up the first Parliamentary Labour Party Women's Group.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliawomen involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliawomen propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliaWomen Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliawomen to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

In the last few days, there has been a protest outside City Hall about the need to safeguard women's refuges, calls for him to deliver on his promises on cycling, and a request for a statue of a suffragette in Parliament SquarIn the last few days, there has been a protest outside City Hall about the need to safeguard women's refuges, calls for him to deliver on his promises on cycling, and a request for a statue of a suffragette in Parliament Squarin Parliament Square.

Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

First, the underrepresentation of women and non-whites in parliaments is the result of a history of gender and racial domination and exclusion.

Women representation at the 6th Ghanaian parliament was 10.5 %, meaning only 29 out of the 133 women who contested in the 2012 parliamentary elections were eleWomen representation at the 6th Ghanaian parliament was 10.5 %, meaning only 29 out of the 133 women who contested in the 2012 parliamentary elections were elewomen who contested in the 2012 parliamentary elections were elected.

This included a 61 year - old woman who once worked in the Houses of Parliament serving food to MPs but later ended up being sent to Yarl's Wood detention centre.

Today, almost 100 years on from her election, women still form a lonely minority in Parliament and largely remain in the pioneer stages of power.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo has promised to fulfill a 30 % representation of women in its government as well as work with the 7 parliament to pass the Affirmative Action Law which will ensure equal participation of women at all levels.

The year after she resigned, following 26 years as a Member of Parliament, just 24 women became MPs and took their seats in Parliament.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

That said, increasing the numbers of women in government (as in the parliament) does not go uncontested.

The indicators used for the rankings were child marriage, maternal mortality, teenage pregnancy, women's representation in parliament and the rate of completion of lower - secondary school among girls.

As part of its policy to appease the Taliban and their sympathisers in the Afghan parliament, the Afghan government has in recent years adopted a number of controversial legal measures that narrow down the space for women's rights rather than expanding it further.

A higher proportion of women in Cabinet has also been found to increase women's conventional political participation — and this effect is stronger than the effect of more women in Parliament.

Clement Attlee's tribute in Parliament catches the essence of this pioneering woman.

Congratulating Theresa May on becoming Prime Minister, Huw Evans, Director General of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: «The appointment of our second woman Prime Minister is a positive day in British public life which will hopefully encourage many more women to stand for election to Parliament.

She inspired the next generation of parliamentarians, including myself, to try to emulate such qualities, which are intrinsic to the role of a member of any parliament, and she started the process of shattering the glass ceiling, providing a role model for women in politics.

To date, a grand total of 370 women have become MPs in the UK — a figure dwarfed by the 502 men MPs, who sit on the green benches of this parliament alone.

As MPs head to parliament to debate the future of funding for women's refuges, an investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals huge delays in promised funds and takes a closer look at the current crisis.