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Online Training: Local Election Toolkit

Since 2012 Women for Election has trained more than 1,000 women to run for election. The past year we have…

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Training Course
April 4th Campaigning and Media/PR Training with Wexford Local Development

In Wexford in 2014, 60 of 70 local election candidates were men. That’s 86% of the county’s ballot. This April 4th, Women for…

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Training Course
Sold out: Radio interview training, April 2nd

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Media training with Women for Election and Near FM, Dublin, 2/4/2019 Time: 1:30pm to 5:30pm…

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Women for Election@women4election·
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"According to National Public Radio, Caputova gained popularity in Slovakia “after her decade-long crusade to shut down a toxic waste dump, which was spewing poison into her hometown of Pezinok in western Slovakia”."

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Liam Carroll@LiamCar44204603·
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Only 7% of the candidates in the 2019 Indian General Election were women. That, however, is still 7% more than ran in Limerick Co. for the last GE here in 2016. Not in agreement with overly-rigid gender quotas, but female representation is important. @women4election

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Melanie Farrell@girlwithepearl·
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Of the posters I have seen so far, there is definitely a notable difference in the percentage of women running👌 #womenforelection @women4election #localelections #Europeanelections

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Women for Election@women4election·
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"Only 7% of candidates who contested India’s parliamentary elections were women"
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