Africa: Looking Ahead: Opportunities & Challenges for Women’s Political Participation in 2014

 

WASHINGTON, December 13, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Remarks

Catherine M. Russell

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

National Democratic Institute (NDI) Offices

Washington, DC

December 12, 2013

 

 

Thank you Ken for opening up NDI to us today, and thank you Lorne for your kind introduction.

I’d like to thank IRI and NDI for the work that you do every day — promoting democracy, supporting democratic institutions and practices, safeguarding elections, and promoting citizen participation. Your work is critical. It also showcases our bipartisan, mutual commitment to democracy, to peaceful democratic transitions and to the engagement of women and men in shaping the futures of their countries.

I’d like to congratulate IRI and NDI for doing this hard and important work every day for 30 years. I know that you each had events earlier this…