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Vanuatu's missing women

What are the consequences of the country having no female MPs?

What happens when a country has an all-male parliament? Vanuatu is one of only three countries on the planet with zero female elected representatives. We find out why only men win votes in Vanuatu and what that means for the economy. Next year the country heads to the polls, so will anything change? Yasmin Bjornum of online platform Sista and Hilda Lini, from a newly-formed all-female political party, give us their view.

Photo: Hilda Lini, an organiser with Vanuatu’s women’s party. Credit: Chris Morgan, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.

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Tue 6 Aug 2019 12:32GMT
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service News Internet

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