Month: August 2015

The Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP), the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) are developing a toolkit to support female parliamentarians in their work on taxation in their national contexts. Taxation is the biggest source of public finance and in developing countries taxes raise up to ten times […]

The Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP) is glad to announce Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, as a Member of the WIP Advisory Board. Irina Bokova is the Director-General of UNESCO since 15 November 2009, and reelected for a second term in 2013. She is the first woman to lead the Organization. As Director-General of […]