Conference of women parliamentarians 2023 to take place for 2nd time in Mongolia

The Standing Committee on State Structure of the State Great Khural in cooperation with the UN "Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Participation in Decision-making" project organized the First Conference of Women Parliamentarians on September 7, 2022, at the State Palace, MONTSAME reports.

The Conference of Women Parliamentarians 2023 is to be organized on December 12, 2023, in Chinggis Khaan Hall at the State Palace.

The First Conference of Women Parliamentarians focused on the international legal framework supporting women's political participation and women's political participation in Mongolia. The participants of the Conference 2023 will discuss the implementation of the Declaration released by the Conference in 2022, ways to improve the results and measures to be taken in the future.

During the Conference, the book "Thousand Steps to Parliament" which reflects possibilities of increasing women's participation at the decision-making level is to be launched.

A total of 3,445 candidates ran for eight parliamentary elections since the establishment of the permanent functioning parliament, State Great Khural, of whom 25 percent were women. Out of the 608 elected parliament members, 10.7 percent were women, and 45 women were elected 65 times with overlapping counts. Of these, 10 women were elected twice or more, and the remaining 35 women were elected once.