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WFD is active in MENA working to strengthen inclusion of the views, perspectives, and concerns of youth in the work of parliaments. Our teams in Lebanon and Morocco are working with selected youth groups and the national parliaments to enhance their collaboration and promote the inclusion of youth in political processes.
Inclusive, effective parliaments are essential to democratic resilience and stability. WFD partners with parliaments across the world. On World Parliament Day, explore our impact and join us in celebrating these essential democratic institutions.
With the inauguration of India's new parliament, a landmark bill was introduced to reserve one third of seats in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women. This marks the revival of a bill that has faced 30 years of delay due to lack of political consensus.
Sex-based equality as a conflict and violence prevention strategy
Lessons from elections in Taiwan, Comoros, Pakistan, India, and South Africa.
This inaugural initiative served to build capacity in Malaysian legislators to develop a deeper understanding of gender mainstreaming and gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) through its application in a bottom-up approach within their constituency projects and programmes.
Malaysia | Report |
WFD invited four women lawmakers to the UK this week, to share their experiences with UK MPs from all the major political parties and learn about different approaches to promoting gender diversity.
Demographic data is essential for effective, responsive and evidence-based legislation.
Kenya |
WFD has been working in Solomon Islands since November 2022 to support and enhance public accountability, representation, and democratic resilience. Principally, we work in partnership with the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands (NPSI) to strengthen parliamentary policies, practices, and processes.
This paper examines the extent to which parliamentary committees provide women in African parliaments with an avenue for influencing laws and policies in the health sector. It maps the inclusion of women in parliamentary committees across sub-Saharan Africa and presents a case study of Malawi, where in 2017 female legislators made use of parliamentary committees to influence a new law on HIV and AIDS – an issue of vital importance to women.
Report |
On the 21 of June, 2023, WFD North Macedonia, in cooperation with the Presidential Center for Political Education (PCPO), organized an expert debate to promote the findings of the Analysis of Political Education in North Macedonia. The analysis shows that in the educational programs for primary and secondary education in the educational system, topics from the field of political education are dispersed in several subjects such as: civic education, sociology and introduction to law. At the same time, there is a serious authoritarian charge among young people in North Macedonia, especially when it comes to values related to ethnic/national themes or democratic state management. An additional sign for the need for political education are the findings of the Westminster research, according to which even 57% of young people are not at all interested and do not follow political events.
North Macedonia | Report |
Around the world, certain limitations to our freedoms in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been accepted as necessary to uphold our collective and individual right to public health, not to mention our fundamental right to life. As a result of this COVID-19 pandemic, key human rights are at risk due to the enactment of emergency laws that are sometimes inconsistent with international human rights law and standards.
Corruption is a significant and persistent challenge in Iraq. Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index puts Iraq 166th out of 175 countries, indicating a huge need to improve public sector financial management and tackle corruption.
Under the EU Media Dialogue programme, WFD delivered a campaign against the use of hate speech in Kyrgyzstani elections. In the run up to the November 2021 parliamentary elections, WFD targeted political parties, candidates, activists, and the media, to raise awareness of the concept of hate speech, the legal implications of its use, and positive measures that could be taken to prevent or avoid it. Political parties demonstrated their agreement with the aims of the campaign, when they included points discussed at WFD activities in the cross-party memorandum on holding elections within the law.