Women's suffrage

KA.DER, a women's rights organization which advocates equal representation of women and men in all fields of life, has criticized Turkish political parties for nominating very few women to run as mayors in the upcoming March 31 local elections.

Speaking on the 82nd anniversary of the granting of women's right to vote in Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has criticized the practice of positive discrimination, saying women and men are "two parts of a whole."

A Saudi woman won a municipal council seat in the country's first ever election open to female voters and candidates, an official said Dec. 13, in a milestone result for the ultra-conservative kingdom.

BELGRADE - President of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence Sonja Liht said on the occasion of the 2014 International Women’s Day that women in Serbian need to excercise their voting rights in the upcoming elections, because it is the first step towards winning all other rights.