The proportion of female candidates for the most recent upper house elections in Japan is the highest in the Asian country’s history, reaching 33%, only two points short of the 35% government target fixed for 2025.
For the first time in its history, Greenpeace USA is led by a Black woman, and the issues the new leader plans on tackling go far beyond climate as she links healthcare and voting rights to racial justice.
North Carolina, United States has become the first southern state to grant former inmates their right to vote, a ruling which aims at redressing the state’s racist origins of its “felon disenfranchisement” law.