India: 25 years on, Women’s Reservation Bill still not a reality
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India ranks 148th out of 193 countries based on the percentage of elected women representatives in their parliaments.
New Delhi, India – “This is a special day in the history of our country…” These were the opening remarks of a debate that took place on September 12, 1996, in the Lok Sabha, the Indian parliament’s lower house. On the agenda was the introduction of a constitutional amendment bill that sought to reserve one-third of seats for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies.
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