Fourth Conference for Members of Parliamentary Committees on the Status of Women and other Committees Dealing with Gender Equality IS PARLIAMENT OPEN TO WOMEN? AN APPRAISAL Geneva, 28-29 September 2009

	Click on the photo to enlarge it This year's conference will take place on 28 and 29 September 2009 at the CICG (Geneva International Conference Centre).  The meeting will focus on women’s access to and participation in parliaments. The two-day event will provide a forum for members of parliament to debate and take stock of progress made, and identify future priorities for realising the goal of equality in politics. The Conference will appraise progress made in terms of women’s parliamentary participation across the world since Beijing, and take stock of concrete steps and special measures that have been taken to open parliaments up to the participation of women. The role of political parties, the influence of money in politics and the effects of quotas and electoral systems will be considered, together with the ways in which women parliamentarians are changing politics and redefining political priorities to include the concerns and priorities of women.

SESSION DOCUMENTS
	Summary [English] [French] [Spanish] [Arabic]
	List of participants [PDF]
	Programme [PDF]
	Invitation [PDF]
	Information document [PDF]
	Registration form [PDF]
	Hotel reservation form [PDF]
RELATED SITES AND DOCUMENTS
	Third Conference for Members of Parliamentary Committees on the Status of Women (Geneva, 2-4 December 2008)
	Second seminar for members of parliamentary committees dealing with the status of women and gender equality (Geneva, 6-8 December 2007)
	First seminar for members of parliamentary committees dealing with the status of women and gender equality (Geneva, 4-6 December 2006)
	Women in politics
	Women in National Parliaments
	Women in politics: Bibliographic database
	PARLINE: Bodies dealing with the status of women and gender equality
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