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Friday, December 25, 2009

UN website targets Maghreb women

2009-12-23

The United Nations on Tuesday (December 22nd) launched a new website aimed at enhancing women's political participation in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) and the Tunisia-based Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) organized the womenpoliticalparticipation.org website to make educational and training resources available to Maghreb women in French, Arabic and English. Ahead of the site's launch, regional experts met in Algiers on Sunday for a CAWTAR and UN-ISTRAW forum on quotas for female office-holders.

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