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Inter-American Commission of Women co-organizes Seminar on Gender Equality and Political System Democratization

  September 17, 2013

The Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) of the Organization of American States (OAS), the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and UN-Women will hold the international seminar "Gender Parity and the Democratization of Political Systems in the Americas," on Thursday September 19, at the headquarters of the hemispheric institution in Washington, D.C.

The event aims to analyze the processes that led to the increase in women's political representation in the Hemisphere and to identify remaining barriers to achieving parity and a political agenda for women's rights in the region.

The discussion at the workshop will be based on the IDEA and CIM publication "Betting on parity: The democratization of political system in Latin America: The cases of Ecuador, Bolivia and Costa Rica" (Spanish only) and on the book The citizenship of women in Americas’ democracies," (Spanish only)(Chapter Caribbean and Chapter Canada) which was written by 16 authors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada.

The event will be broadcast live on the OAS Website.

WHAT: International Seminar: "Gender Parity and the Democratization of Political Systems in the Americas"

WHEN: Thursday, September 19, 2012, from 9:30 to 17:00 EDT (13:30 to 21:00 GMT)

WHERE: Rubén Darío Hall
Organization of American States
1889 F St., NW
Washington, DC 20006

Reference: AVI-227/13