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World in Politics March 12, 2019
NEW YORK, March 13, (Xinhua) -- Gabriela Cuevas Barron, president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), speaks at a press briefing on the launch of the map of Women in Politics during the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) at the UN headquarters in New York, March 12, 2019. The proportion of women ministers is at an all-time high at 20.7 percent, 2.4 percentage points higher than in 2017, according to data in the 2019 edition of the biennial IPU-UN Women map released Tuesday.
NEW YORK, March 13, (Xinhua) -- Gabriela Cuevas Barron, president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), speaks at a press briefing on the launch of the map of Women in Politics during the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) at the UN headquarters in New York, March 12, 2019. The proportion of women ministers is at an all-time high at 20.7 percent, 2.4 percentage points higher than in 2017, according to data in the 2019 edition of the biennial IPU-UN Women map released Tuesday.
NEW YORK, March 13, (Xinhua) -- Nepalese President Bidhya Devi Bhandari (C) speaks during a round-table discussion of a high-level event on Women in Power at the UN headquarters in New York, on March 12, 2019. UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces hosted the high-level event on Women in Power on Tuesday and highlighted the benefits of womens participation in politics, including economic stability and promotion of fairer laws.
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