{"id":37394,"date":"2018-04-29T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/female-politicians-global-network-opens-offices\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:52:32","slug":"female-politicians-global-network-opens-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/female-politicians-global-network-opens-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Politicians\u2019 Global network opens offices in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The office was opened yesterday in a cultural dinner that was hosted by Speaker of parliament, Donatille Mukabalisa.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Salvana Koch_Mehrin, the Founder and the President of the Women Political Leaders Global Forum said that they decided to open their offices in Rwanda because the country has advanced in programmes that promote women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for choosing Rwanda is obvious; when you speak about women in politics, it has many women in parliament and other senior government positions. Women are also seen in other positions. Rwanda is a good example for Africa and the world to learn from,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Rwanda 64% of the members of Parliament are women and so it&#8217;s the perfect place to base the WPL Office. Let&#8217;s work hard, dream big and support more women in politics to advance society\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The office will coordinate all network\u2019s activities in Africa. <\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mukabalisa hailed the organization for opening the office in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour presence here means a lot to the relations of our countries and institutions we represent. I thank WPL for choosing to open Africa Office in Rwanda. We are pleased by your commitment in making governments understand the role and job of women in governance and politics,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda is honoured and humbled to host the WPL office and is committed to make the initiative the success it can and should be. Let\u2019s keep finding creative ways to accelerate equality for women everywhere,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Women Political Leaders Global Forum is a global network of female politicians with a mission of increasing both the number and the influence of women in political leadership positions with headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25015 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0895-49120.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25016 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0907-3-775e5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25014 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0887-1290a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25017 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igh_0216-22324.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women Political Leaders (WPL), a global network of female politicians in partnership with Mo Ibrahim Foundation has opened Africa Office in Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37394"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37394"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}