Regional trendsJens Wandel

Deputy Regional Director & Regional Centre Director

International Conference on WOMEN and GOVERNANCE

Istanbul, December 1-3, 2008

United Nations Development Programme

Millennium Summit 2000189 world leaders committed to gender

equality & empowerment of women

Regional Comparison of Women’s political participation in Lower House of Parliament in EECIS Region 1989, 1994 and 2008

Geopolitical Map of Women’s Political

Participation in EECIS Region in

1994note: shading indicates numbers increasing from light to dark

Geopolitical Map of Women’s Political

Participation in EECIS Region in

2008

note: shading indicates numbers increasing from light to dark

Women in

Ministerial

positions

2008